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The erosion of global democratic norms and institutions threatens our freedom, prosperity, and security. Authoritarian states such as Russia, China, and Iran employ disinformation, malign finance, and cyber operations to interfere in elections, shape decision-making, foster economic destabilization, exacerbate existing societal cleavages, and weaken governance.  GMF’s democracy work, comprising the efforts of the Alliance for Securing […]

As the world marks Democracy Day today, the United States’ system of representative government is under attack. Despite dozens of court rulings to the contrary, nearly 70% of Republicans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the last 10 years, more than 29 states have passed legislation making it tougher to vote. Censorship […]

The tumultuous aftermath of our last presidential election keeps washing up not just in Washington, D.C., but on the doorstep of Atlanta, Georgia. Of the four recent indictments of Donald Trump and his associates, the most sweeping is slated for a likely-to-be-televised trial as early as next March 2024 in a courtroom of Fulton County, […]

“No quarter. Raise the black flag.” Enrique Tarrio is raging online about President Joe Biden’s election victory. It’s November 2020, a couple of months before the January 6 insurrection. But Tarrio isn’t just an angry Donald Trump supporter posting on the internet. He’s the leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group with perhaps thousands of […]

More than 80 percent of voters say they are worried about the state of democracy in the U.S., according to a new Bipartisan Policy Center/Morning Consult poll released exclusively to The Hill on Tuesday.  Eighty-two percent of voters said they are worried about democracy in the U.S., including 40 percent who said they are “very […]

The man accused of crashing a box truck into barriers near the White House in a bid to overthrow the government planned to give a speech announcing the end of U.S. democracy, prosecutors said. Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, of Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, was being held without bail pending a hearing Tuesday. He […]

Nigeria’s outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari, has a major opportunity to redeem his legacy before his term concludes on May 29, and the Biden administration has good reason to play a role.  After winning two landslide victories and serving as president for eight years, Buhari is leaving office with the country in disarray and with few […]

Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board May 6, 2023 | 7:33pm The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that almost a third of 8th graders can’t describe the basic functions of our government.  Getty Images Can a democracy survive if its youth know nothing about government or civic participation . . […]

In 2016, I interviewed 26 members of the Argentine armed forces who were in active duty during the country’s last military dictatorship, some of whom were under house arrest. After three months of reporting, I couldn’t help but feel that I was being followed. Conducting interviews from the Naval Center social club to middle and […]

Just weeks ago, American diplomats thought Sudan was on the verge of a breakthrough agreement that would advance its transition from military dictatorship to full-fledged democracy, delivering on the soaring promise of the country’s revolution in 2019. Sudan had become an important test case in President Biden’s


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