A month after the United States deposed Nicolás Maduro, what can the Trump administration do to move Venezuela toward democracy?

Virginia voters prioritize safeguarding democracy over issues like inflation, with 41% citing it as their main voting motive.

Political concerns began seriously to mount in 2024 when, in the run up to that year’s presidential election, the newspaper broke a 36-year precedent by refusing to endorse a candidate (which most readers, given the paper’s traditionally liberal leanings, had assumed would be Democrat Kamala Harris).

The state department says that information is being retained internally.

Stanford will celebrate its fifth annual Democracy Day on Nov. 4 in a day-long celebration of civic engagement marked by events, panels, mixers and activities. Despite it being a non-election year, the day will see double the volunteers from last year and ...

A year and a half ago, Bangladesh looked as though it was on track to defy the global pattern of democratic reversal. Mass protests led by an economically frustrated younger gener

We have witnessed two human beings lose their lives on the streets of Minneapolis, their deaths recorded before the eyes of the world.

Overseeing the election will be the final duty of Bangladesh’s caretaker government, led since the revolution by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace-prize laureate. Views on its performance vary wildly. But most people agree that it steadied an economy that was in freefall.

Lies are just one of the tools authoritarians use to subvert democracy. Ignoring the rule of law, installing loyalists in positions of power, eliminating career soldiers, attorneys, and diplomats

It’s now impossible for Democrats to change the subject from the United States’ descent into authoritarianism, and they shouldn’t want to. Since our founding, The Bulwark’s mission has been to fight authoritarianism—without partisan prejudice or empty both-sidesism.