Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images. Illiberal leaders rise, fall, and sometimes crash. Yet, the illiberal movement itself continues to gain ground. The current moment again feels like the ...

Photo by Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images. The statement “No Kings” is meant to be an exclamation of democratic power by ordinary citizens. It is a call that should cause us to consider both the ...

In 1994, the world watched South Africa’s first democratic election, celebrating the victory of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC). This year, for the first time in three decades, the ...

This last phase of reactionary compliance is where something more insidious began to unfold. Organizations, including those with long histories of supporting LGBTQ+ people, started erasing trans and ...

The coups pose a significant threat to the ongoing process of democratization that Africa earnestly began in the 1990s. During this time, the Wind of Change brought a legal shift from one-party states ...

The Charles F. Kettering Foundation today announced the awarding of five, one-year global fellowships to inspiring leaders working in many different fields to protect and defend democracy. These ...

History is filled with dark times and with the struggles for freedom against tyranny. When Étienne de La Boétie wrote his “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” in 1549, he not only explored why people ...

Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, recently said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” He’s not exaggerating ...

Over the past thirty years, both Democratic and Republican-controlled states have adopted the following reforms to make voter registration easier, more efficient, and more accurate. Automatic voter ...

When Donald Trump was president, he lashed out at the media, responded to critical coverage by describing it as “fake news,” and called journalists “the enemy of the American people.” Project 2025 ...

There is a mystery coiled up inside the latest survey results from The People’s Role in American Democracy, the latest report from the Democracy for All Project, a joint endeavor between the Charles F ...

In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, various outlets highlighted how Project 2025—a massive blueprint directing the efforts of a possible second Trump administration—sought to ...