Fear’s the way we die.” “Fear” is in fact the way we die. It’s the way our democracy dies. Few people in recent history have been more focused on and more forceful in the promotion of ...

Runciman quotes Eliane Scarry in her book ... and Daniel Ziblatt write about the lessons of history about how democracy dies. Their main thesis is that democracy dies when elected officials ...

Democracy fails when it relies on an uninformed electorate and media rife with misinformation. Steps must be taken to address ...

Donald Trump has tried to link Democrats’ charge that he poses a “threat to democracy” to threats on his life. Meanwhile, he ...

Democracy and the Death of Shame reads the fear that 'shame is dead' as an expression of anxiety about the social disturbance endemic to democratic politics. Far from an essential supplement to ...

The latest apparent assassination attempt against the former president indicates how much the American political landscape ...

The obituary last week of Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru and once a university acquaintance of mine, ...

More worryingly, disinformation threatens not only development, but also democracy itself. As news organizations struggle to survive in a complex and fast-changing media landscape, abuses of political ...

The Washington Post has come under fire from critics who allege its ads on X are politically skewed in amplifying pro-Harris and anti-Trump content. In recent weeks, conservatives have shared ...

He died at a hospital in Tokyo and was 74. Holley spent two decades as a Times foreign correspondent, covering pro-democracy street protests in nearly a dozen other countries before going into ...

Can you donate $10 per month to support Democracy Now!’s independent journalism all year long? Since our very first broadcast in 1996, we’ve refused to take government or corporate funding ...

A range of stars from the stage, screen and sport has gathered to pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter ahead of his 100th birthday ...