Central American countries are falling like dominoes into authoritarianism, warns José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch: Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has intensified his crackdown on political… Read more »
The latest Afrobarometer survey shows a high level of support for democracy in Africa, with seventy percent of respondents wanting a democratic regime. But only 36% perceived an appropriate supply… Read more »
A photoshopped image depicting Pope Francis smoking marijuana with former Bolivian President Evo Morales, thus “proving” the Argentine pontiff is a decadent socialist at heart, was the most ridiculous recent… Read more »
Democracy and civil society activists are among the leading contenders for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Washington Post reports. The candidates include Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to… Read more »
Former New York Times CEO and BBC director-general Mark Thompson is teaming up with Filipino journalist and press freedom advocate Maria Ressa (right) to spearhead a global initiative to support… Read more »
The attempts by Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro to engineer social media regulation to keep his messages and those of his supporters safe from removal is yet another move which appears… Read more »
With liberalism in crisis, many governments feel free to find their own way of doing things that may have little to do with Western liberal thinking, analysts Vuk Vuksanovic and Marko… Read more »
Democracy is not self-repairing. It requires constant attention, notes Fiona Hill, the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe. No country, no… Read more »
Bipartisanship is a rare and fragile commodity in U.S. politics, but at least one institution continues to draw robust support from across the political spectrum. Democrats and Republicans alike expressed… Read more »
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will convene an online symposium honoring NED’s founding president, Carl Gershman. The event will include remarks by Gershman and two outstanding panels: Francis Fukuyama… Read more »