A rating on the health of American democracy indicated the U.S. is in poor shape — and trending in the wrong direction.

The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.

What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...

THIS YEAR reliable old Europe once again did best in the global democracy index, an annual report published by EIU, our ...

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement of a major reorganization of the State Department this week was meant to signal ...

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up ...

Threats to democracy seen in the U.S. are a global issue, but differences in the media and political systems limit their impact in Australia — for now.

Marco Rubio said the US state department is "bloated, bureaucratic and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission".

Much of the discussion surrounding the tariffs proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump has focused on their short-term ...

Elon Musk said Tuesday he will scale back his efforts to slash the size of the federal government to a day or two a week, ...