It was the early spring of 1963, Saturday, March 23, and again on Saturday, March 30, to be exact when a group of ...

A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.

A leading global democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after ...

Politics always had much to do with free speech in India. This is evident even in the row over Kunal Kamra’s comedy.

A former career foreign service officer writes that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s coddling of Donald Trump and ...

LAURA GAMBOA is Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies Against the Erosion of Democracy. The ...

It doesn’t matter how many rules we have if no one follows them. If they are not widely respected, then the structure becomes ...

Universities and research are the target of unprecedented attacks in the US, threatening academic freedom. Scientists have ...

The USCIRF's 2025 annual report claimed that religious freedom in India was worsening, citing an increase in attacks and ...

Many Americans fear that the institutions protecting our democracy are under threat. Democracy originated in the city-states ...

José 'Pepe' Mujica underlined Thursday the importance of a country having the freedom to disagree. He made those remarks ...

I’m finally pushed over the edge by all the public references to our form of government as a Democracy. The United States Of America is not, and has never been, a democracy. Thank God and our Founding ...