America remains the world’s preeminent technology power. It’s time to finally deploy our national capabilities to take back ...

According to the 2026 edition of Freedom in the World, media freedom, personal expression, and due process registered the ...

A successful response must include stronger coordination among democracies, reformed democracy assistance, and more strategic ...

Between 2014 and 2024, Freedom House recorded a total of 1,219 direct, physical incidents of transnational repression committed by 48 governments reaching across the borders of 103 countries. 1 In ...

As the democratic community adapts to the severe funding cuts and operational disruptions of 2025, this year’s Freedom in the ...

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Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. See the ...

In 2023, Democracy Scores declined in 11 out of the 29 countries in the report, and 7 countries earned improvements. Yet civic activists and democratic leaders continued to strive for better ...

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