Dominic Tierney is an expert on losers—in the best possible way. The professor's studies of war and its political price are must-read volumes for those looking to understand how force and governance ...

President Donald Trump during a news conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Jan. 3, 2026, the day U.S. forced captured Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro Credit - Nicole ...

Frank Chouraqui is a non-active member of the Dutch political party Groenlinks-PvdA (center left) We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge ...

We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge (schools, legacy media, universities and experts) is at an all-time low, and blatant liars are drawing ...

KYRGYZSTAN USED to be an exception in Central Asia: the sole democracy in a region run by strongmen, albeit a flawed one. That is rapidly ceasing to be the case. It regressed a bit closer to the mean ...

President Donald Trump at the White House on November 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. When thinking about the future of Venezuela, parts of the Trump Administration seem to be embracing the theory that ...

Support and expertise for nascent and recovering democracies abroad can complement military and economic aid. The Trump administration has had a busy first nine months in office on the world stage.

As the Republican Party struggles to define itself for the post-Trump era, constitutional scholar and lifelong conservative Justin Stapley warns that the movement’s problems run far deeper than any ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to serving for the rest of my life. However, I resigned Friday, relinquishing that ...