Nelson Mandela knew that a democracy can never go on autopilot and expect to remain a democracy. So, South Africa was a democracy in 1910 in the same way that the United States was — a democracy in ...

New voices are joining the national debate over academic freedom on college campuses, and that’s good for democracy. What do academic freedom and democracy have in common? Plenty, and that’s why it’s ...

It may seem premature to discuss in this column the post-war-period, as we are in the beginning of a major one. A war not far from Europe, which for the first time has set of a truly global public ...

As my past writings have asserted, I am no fan of President Donald Trump. As many Americans did in 2016, I struggled with his electoral victory. Only after several weeks had elapsed did I grit my ...

Promotion of democracy and human rights are often linked or even viewed as identical aims. In the U.S. State Department, the office dealing with this subject area is called the Bureau of Democracy, ...

The current issue of The Atlantic is organized around the question, “Is Democracy Dying?” Contributors make a case for “yes” around the world. Anne Applebaum, a Washington Post columnist living in ...