Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah who ruled Iran until 1979, says he is ready to lead the country to democracy. But some Iranians ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told President Donald Trump during a private White House luncheon her party ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy ...

A day after she gave President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ...

A prominent activist who organized Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has defended their demand for ending "one-party rule” in court.

One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian ...

Venezuela’s road to democracy does not start or end with Trump’s extraction of Maduro, writes journalist Helena Carpio.

The New York Times published a seven-day series of editorials (12/8/25–12/14/25) meant to examine, as the initial piece put ...

History will judge Americans on their defense of democracy in 2026, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union of ...

Greenland is in the news again, courtesy of Donald Trump's threats to take it away from NATO ally Denmark, and the not insignificant (one in three?) possibility that he would actually do it.

A recent book argues that reading fiction and non-fiction can promote relational, cognitive, and emotional qualities that ...

The rule of law is not a theoretical concept; it is the lifeblood of democracy, development, and human dignity. Without it, elections are hollow, economic growth is fragile, and human development is ...