Former chief justice Aharon Barak told anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv on Saturday that Israel was no longer a liberal ...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

In his comments, Rieff discussed the erosion of democracy across the globe and whether a democratic resurgence is viable today. Despite Russia’s war in Ukraine, he sees China as a far larger threat to ...

Many philanthropists, be they foundation-based or individual grantmakers, are committed to defending democracy in America amid its present peril. Over the past decade, these donors have spent billions ...

I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain's King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the ...

A Polish historian and journalist says she believes it is time for liberal politicians to lean harder on emotion the way populists have for years. By Farah Nayeri This article is from a special report ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This past week, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo brought together some ...

A FRENCH COURT has found Marine Le Pen, the leader of the country’s far-right movement, guilty of embezzlement of EU funds and has barred her from running for office for five years. The ban takes ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

When warring cultures and distant poles are the recurring metaphors for our politics, genteel calls for moderation may seem quaint. When authoritarian impulses are ascendant, wishing for ...

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