Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a professor of Government. Democracy is in ...

A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better ...

Trump is ransacking the institutions that keep the nation going, including the IRS, CDC and NIH, which support not only democracy but life itself.

At the same time, countries across the continent appear increasingly amenable to military rule and the stability it can ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

Did Germans in the 1930s recognize their democracy’s collapse? Did they see their leader’s moral bankruptcy and thirst for power? Let’s ask ourselves the same today. The warning signs are ...

What is the history of democracy in Ukraine? Ukraine has a history that goes back centuries. Aspirations for freedom and justice were often central to its nation-building project, but the history of ...

We are living in an era of profound political and social upheaval, when the foundational principles of democracy—dialogue ... themselves and their families. Today, we acknowledge them as ...