No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book “Development as Freedom.” My recent ...

As President Donald Trump redesigns U.S. policy to reflect his America First agenda, major change seems to be ahead for efforts to promote democracy overseas. The foreign assistance budget has ...

Democracy dies when we fail to see the “other” as someone worthy of love and mercy. Likewise, Democracy dies, and autocracy begins when leaders fully “entrench” themselves, meaning they fortify their ...

Is the United States headed toward autocracy?That's a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to ...

Her recent guest essay for The New York Times is headlined “Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy?” Professor Scheppele, welcome back to Democracy Now! Why don’t you answer your question?

A crowd of more than a thousand marched from Boston Common to the JFK Federal Building in protest of the Trump administration ...

Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Bangladesh Michael Miller has said they want to see ...

Democrats and Republicans don’t know the first thing about democracy. In fact, they don’t know the second or third things ...