How US-Israel assumptions about Iran’s collapse under air power failed amid regional realities and political resilience.

This map shows countries where a presidential, general or legislative/parliamentary election is/was held in 2026.

Daphne Bryson Jackson, founder of women’s empowerment platform From Here to There, leads DETOUR into its next chapter.

Climate change often reaches the public through graphs, targets, and diplomatic language. Then a single image erases that ...

A socioeconomic divide shapes the country’s politics—and its aggressive foreign Policy.

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New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece ...

Yana Gorokhovskaia is research director for strategy and design at Freedom House and a co-author of the report “Freedom in ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of ...

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a new Republican-drawn congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that state law does not ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

Iran dismissed President Trump’s ultimatum to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying it would consider electric plants and ...