The US under President Donald Trump has had a strained relationship with South Africa, but in the future, the world’s largest ...

The coalescing partnership of autocracies led by China and Russia will impose strategic choices on Western democracies, no matter who wins the U.S. presidential election. Can the U.S. and its allies ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Venezuela attack represents the clearest example during Trump’s second presidency ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday detailed his plans for leading the United States into a new era focused on diplomacy rather than American military power as he seeks to counter rising autocracies ...

Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it appears. In October, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won a highly dubious 98% of the presidential vote, perpetuating ...

The historic prisoner release from Russia was thanks to the diplomatic work of a group of democracies to free over a dozen people from the autocratic regime of Vladimir Putin. Anne Applebaum's new ...

Autocracy in America is scheduled to debut on TheAtlantic.com on Sept. 6 and will feature two hosts who are both senior fellows for the SNF Agora Institute: Peter Pomerantsev and Anne Applebaum, who ...

From cautious concern to doomsday predictions, the U.S.-China Security and Review Commission (USCC) heard testimony on February 20 that broadly addressed one question: Is China a partner in an “Axis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democratic nations have grappled with a range of pressing issues in recent years, including the inherent flaws of long-established ...

In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously addressed the challenge of defining hard-core pornography by stating, “I know it when I see it.” If we apply that standard to President Donald ...

An Indonesian protester rallies in favor of Uyghur independence. China has been accused of silencing members of the Muslim minority group. AP Photo/Dita Alangkara Governments, even democratic ones, ...