The fear came back in different ways. In Austin, a Venezuelan exile sensed a familiar knot in his stomach after a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump suggested he has unfettered authority.

Economist intelligence analyzed 167 countries and gave them a ranking from zero to 10 based on their performance in five key ...

To sustain itself, authoritarianism dismantles women’s autonomy, writes Leigh Gilmore. The frequent consequence is that women ...

Discover how Trump's return to power is impacting American democracy and global freedom, causing a crisis of democracy ...

Debates about AI investment often wrongly frame it as a binary decision: Build at home or fund projects abroad.

Liberal media outlets including CNN, MSNBC, and ABC are blasting Trump’s upcoming military parade, calling it ‘authoritarian’ and ego-driven.

Countless people have left authoritarian countries for the promise of freedom and safety in the United States. NPR reached out to Koranyi and a dozen others to get their impressions of the Trump ...

While the U.S. government’s recent attacks on higher education may look much different from the Taliban’s, there are some parallels and useful lessons.

All had left authoritarian countries to build new lives in the United States, a place they believed would be different. But they now see ominous patterns repeating and democratic norms eroding ...