Despite years of warning, the U.S. and its allies aren’t ready for the challenges created by a coterie of Eurasian autocrats, argues Aaron MacLean, a senior fellow at the Foundation… Read more »
The list of invitees to this week’s Summit for Democracy reflects political considerations more than democratic values, resulting in “a tangle of contradictions and missed opportunities,” The Economist suggests. Attendees… Read more »
Next month’s virtual Summit for Democracy will take place against a “gloomy backdrop,” The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern writes. When President Joe Biden announced the summit, back in August, the… Read more »
Transatlanticism enhances democracy promotion and collective security in Europe and Asia, augmenting an international order shaped by deliberation and cooperation, argues Catholic University professor Michael C. Kimmage. So the Biden… Read more »
In today’s ideological competition between illiberal autocracy and liberal democracy, Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia have made major investments in tools for propagating their worldviews and explaining their policies. The United… Read more »
The Biden administration hopes to bring democracies together in a new alliance against autocratic powers led by Beijing, notes a new analysis from the European Council on Foreign Relations. It… Read more »
Defending and advancing democracy is “the cause of our time,” says Damon Wilson, President & CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Democracy has taken hits or is… Read more »
President Biden grew up in the world of Cold War liberal anti-communism, associated with the historian Arthur Schlesinger, the author of “The Vital Center”; the labor leader Walter Reuther; and… Read more »
Faced with creeping authoritarianism, liberals need to craft a new agenda—learning from their serious mistakes, and shaking shibboleths of both right and left, argues Timothy Garton Ash. Writers have interpreted… Read more »
Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with… Read more »