The biggest battle of our time is democracy versus authoritarianism. In the 1930s, democracy lost; but during the Cold War, democracy won. Today, the free world is standing against China and Russia.

With democracy retaining its appeal, young people increasingly engaged in politics and connected with the world, and democratic institutions and civil society organizations strong and widespread, the ...

The United States is on a downward trajectory when it comes to respect for civil rights, with an international monitoring group warning that democracy is under threat with the Trump administration’s ...

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organization that works to support and strengthen democratic institutions and processes around the world, to ...

Democracy is deteriorating across the world amid the coronavirus pandemic as a number of nations have taken undemocratic actions in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to a report from the ...

This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and the threats it faces.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is suing the Trump administration for denying it access to nearly $240 million in congressionally approved funding. The suit, which was filed Wednesday night ...

Tim Meisburger was a Visiting Fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Although required to be bipartisan, the National Endowment for ...

“Tactics is what you do when there is something to do. Strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do.” – Chess Grandmaster Savielly Tartakower. There is no better example of the futility of ...

The 2025 election reveals a crisis deeper than disillusionment. Iraq’s problem is the internalised belief that nothing will ...

President Ronald Reagan during a state visit to London in June 1982. Reagan laid the rhetorical foundations for the National Endowment for Democracy in a speech during that visit. Fox Photos/Hulton ...