Writer says Americans condemn autocracy when it happens elsewhere but not in their own country.

Democracies under pressure: more and more countries are sliding into authoritarian systems of government and democratic systems are on the defensive, according to the latest Bertelsmann Stiftung ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...

"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book "Development as Freedom." The answer is a ...