In a powerful address on April 9 — a solemn date in Georgian history marking the Soviet crackdown on peaceful protesters in ...

and third—by my fear that we are going to sleepwalk through the transition of our country from a democracy to an autocracy," he said.

The United States is no longer a democracy. At least, that’s the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace, which measures regime qualities of countries worldwide based on the ...

The arrest and recent imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu sent shockwaves through Turkey, marking a decisive shift toward full autocracy. On March 19, police officers — acting on ...

Is America slipping from a democracy to an autocracy, an oligarchy or some combination? We need not dig too deeply in the annals of history to see how and what happens when a democracy slips into ...

“THE PRESIDENT had a great conversation with Erdogan a couple of days ago,” Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, told an interviewer on March 21st. “There’s just a lot of good ...

In this brazen act of political suppression, the Turkish government has taken a momentous step toward full-fledged autocracy. The scheme to take Imamoglu out of play was calculated and thorough. On ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

A new yearly report on the condition of global democracy is sounding an alarm, and the United States, the oldest worldwide symbol of freedom ... professor Michael Miller used the term "electoral ...

“Autocracy is on the march,” Clinton said, apparently at the World Forum on the Future of Democracy, Tech and Humankind. “And we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in ...