Experts at the Athens Democracy Forum this week will explore the challenges to democracy, from artificial intelligence and subversion to complacency and inequality. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...

At a forum in Athens, leaders discussed challenges to democracy that they said stemmed from both internal and external forces. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from Athens This article is from a special ...

Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Save Few developments have mattered ...

Chicago Mayor on Trump’s Threat to Use “Dangerous” Cities as “Training Grounds for our Military” A “Green Light” for War Crimes? What Trump & Hegseth’s Lecture to Generals Really Means Mahmoud Khalil ...

“Shameful”: Israel Seizes Gaza-Bound Vessels & Detains 400+, But More Boats Are Now Heading to Gaza “Orwell: 2+2=5”: Raoul Peck & Alex Gibney on New Documentary, Authoritarianism, Trump & More Will El ...

College students everywhere know the feeling of watching their schedules fill up to the point where they struggle to fit even lunch into their day. Days get packed with labs, extracurriculars, ...

A rally on Capitol Hill in support of democracy, Oct. 1. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP) Today, Americans are less likely to believe that the U.S. will “cease to be a democracy in the future" than they were three ...

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This fall, millions of college students arrived on campuses carrying more than backpacks and laptops — they hold the power to shape the future of our democracy. During this constitutional crisis in ...

Syria and the Strongman’s Democracy. Here, Syrian president Ahmad Al-Sharaa approaches the podium to speak during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at ...

Five companies—five—now control 90 percent of the media marketplace. And they are showing no commitment to anything resembling the public interest. In 1997, President Bill Clinton tabbed me to ...

Donald Trump likes to say he doesn’t actually lose elections–only the “rigged” ones. Such comments are not mere bluster, like the president’s boasts about golf. They are threats to democracy, which is ...