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

Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has elicited a fresh wave of anger after he signed an executive order on Thursday targeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hopefully folks will start to pay better attention to what Trump, DOGE and the Republicans in Congress are doing to veer us toward autocracy.

President Donald Trump has decreed 25% tariffs against our two largest trading partners, Mexico and Canada, by declaring a “national emergency” and then exercising powers granted him by the ...

Autocracy is on the march, and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats, which has made a choice to support those who wage war, not peace.