The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” A poster featuring President Donald Trump in a SS ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

Paul McCarthy is a Senior Research Fellow for European Affairs in The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. The European Democracy Shield (EDS) is being sold as a bulwark against ...

Anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the daily ebb and flow of news during the first year of the second Donald Trump administration should reallllly have picked up on the way ...