Across 35 countries, there are some disconnects between how people rate the importance of free expression and how free they ...

The number of autocracies—where one top leader holds unconstrained authority—has now surpassed the various forms of world democracies in 2024.

The law against insulting the Thai monarchy has become a common tool for silencing Thai activists. Now, a foreign academic ...

In short, protectionism grants states too much arbitrary power to intervene in the market and thus spawns more platforms for ...

A median of 31% across 35 countries say they're completely free to speak without censorship, and 28% say their media are ...

The Cold War was a confrontation of ideologies: democracy versus communism. But a world split into two blocs was excellent for most countries, including developing ones, as they could use the face ...

The purpose of an opinion poll should be to discern not just what the public thinks but also what it understands.

The tensions between Harvard and the Trump administration appear to be growing as the president calls the university an ...

A poll last spring by the Pew Research Center found that 72 percent of Americans thought U.S. democracy was no longer a good example for other countries. In December, a Washington Post-University ...

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted the temporary restraining order for the U.S. Agency for Global Media to disburse ...

I also look forward to China putting an end to the CCP’s one-party dictatorship and developing into a democratic country. However, it now looks like the Democratic Party in Hong Kong is to disband, ...