Researchers have carried out a new comprehensive assessment on how different people around the world understand the concept of ‘democracy.’ The results demonstrate that -overwhelmingly- people in ...

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union announced it will spend a groundbreaking over $25 million during the 2024 election cycle aimed at safeguarding and advancing fundamental rights with a ...

American democracy is in real trouble, but history, law, social science, and global politics all suggest that rights can be rebuilt, and that people and institutions are already laying the groundwork ...

It’s now impossible for Democrats to change the subject from the United States’ descent into authoritarianism, and they ...

The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) published its Liberties Rule of Law Report 2024 on Monday, in which the organization raised concerns about the declining state of the rule of law and ...

Last month I participated in a meeting of a dozen or so foundation leaders and think tankers. We spent two days grappling with, as the invitation put it, the “functions and dysfunctions of the present ...

President Donald Trump is reportedly seeking to ax most of the members of an internal watchdog agency that flags potential privacy violations by federal surveillance programs—including the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Cox v. Sony, a landmark copyright case. An amicus brief by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Virginia, and the ...

This infographic shows the distribution of countries worldwide according to the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index and the ...

A new study by the watchdog group Media Matters has found that Democratic and Republican candidates have been asked few questions about their views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, ...

Most people in most countries state that they wish to have a democratic government. But the definition of democracy has been constantly contested. Without understanding what people really mean by ...