The global average dropped to a new record low of 5.17, down from a high of 5.55 in 2015. Just 6.6% of the world’s population now lives in a full democracy, down from 12.5% ten years ago.

It is a reminder that in Trump’s brave new world, one way that life will change is not just in what the American state does not do to defend democracy abroad, but in what values US culture no ...

Meta warned EU officials this week to back off their legal crusade against the company or it would sic U.S. President Donald ...

Feb. 15): Between George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” the debate has raged: How will the fall of democracy be realized? Orwell envisioned an autocracy by ...