Democracy Paradox

The Last Episode. Elizabeth Saunders on How Democracies Wage War and Make Peace

When Democracy Breaks: Final Thoughts with Archon Fung, David Moss and Arne Westad

When Democracy Breaks: Scott Mainwaring on Argentina

When Democracy Breaks: 1930s Japan with Louise Young

When Democracy Breaks: Ancient Athens with Josiah Ober and Federica Carugati

Alexander Keyssar on Why We Still Have the Electoral College

Robert Kagan on the Threat of Antiliberalism

Rep Mikie Sherrill on Whether the Bipartisan Consensus on Foreign Policy Will Hold and on Threats to American Democracy

Saskia Brechenmacher on Promoting Gender Equality Through Democracy Assistance Aid

Democracy in a Postmodern Era with Bruce Ackerman

Adam Casey on How Military Aid Can Stabilize and Destabilize Foreign Autocrats

Disinformation is a Threat to Democracy Says Barbara McQuade

Grading Biden's Foreign Policy with Alexander Ward

Peter Pomerantsev on Winning an Information War

Is Democracy Still in Decline? Yana Gorokhovskaia on the Freedom in the World Report

When We Misread Dictators... Steve Coll on Saddam Hussein and the American Invasion of Iraq

Why is the Immigration System Broken? Jonathan Blitzer on How American Foreign Policy in Central America Created a Crisis

The Surveillance State in China Began With Mao Says Minxin Pei

After a Coup, Can the Constitutional Order Be Repaired? Adem Abebe on Rebuilding Constitutions in West Africa

Can Poland Repair its Constitutional Democracy? Tomás Daly Believes it Can

Simon Shuster on Zelensky in War and Peace

Marcela Rios Tobar on the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile

Kurt Weyland on the Resilience of Democracy

Is a New Jim Crow Emerging in India? Ashutosh Varshney Gives a Warning

Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case

Is Islamism Democratic? Sebnem Gumuscu on Islamist Parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey

Can America Fight Back Against the Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China? Bethany Allen Believes We Can

Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Katlyn Carter on Transparency and Secrecy in Early Representative Governments

How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism

Rachel Schwartz on How Guatemala Rose Up Against Democratic Backsliding

Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture

Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin

Patricia Evangelista Says The Philippines is an Example of What Happens When Autocrats and Dictators Rise and We Let Them

Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President

Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East

Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality

Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology

Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy

Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority

Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea

Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Unio

Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East

Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes

Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution

Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy

Is McKinsey and Company a Threat to Democracy? Michael Forsythe Shares His Reporting

Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators

Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey... or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?

Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem

Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty