When Biden said the word from the Oval Office, it was official. In terms of democracy, America is heading in a third-world direction. It’s not hard to spot. Elon Musk has made himself Trump’s ...

To make it worse, Trump said of exploring a third term, “I’m not joking” — yet he would not further clarify his intentions.

President Trump has to give up his office after his second term. But his refusal to accept that underscores how far he is ...

The Real World of Democracy is published by House of Anansi. ListenListen... C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and ...

The big picture: More than one-third of the world population now lives under authoritarian rule, according to the index. The overall global Democracy Index score has fallen from 5.52 in 2006 to a ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. Democracy means a system in which all citizens have certain recognised political and ...