Archaeologists can use the design of ancient temples, plazas, and cities to piece together the story of how a place was ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

For the past ten years I have paid close attention to everything Donald Trump has said and done. This is my job—but it is also who I have become. At the school gates, in the office, online: friends ...

The thing about elected authoritarians is that they sometimes lose elections. Such was the case in 2023 with Poland’s Law and Justice party. The ultra-conservative populist party rode a wave of ...

A little more than 80 years ago, a group of young military officers joined with Venezuela’s main opposition party to overthrow the country’s ruling dictator. The man who took power, Rómulo Betancourt, ...

The trouble with being in the middle of a really big crowd is that you can’t zoom out to see how big it is, so I’ll take the Santa Cruz No Kings organizers’ word for it and say more than 12,000 people ...