Political scientists Lee Drutman and Mark Copelovitch say that the next time Democrats have a trifecta in Washington they must push proportional representation and other major reforms to America’s political system.

Political scientists Lee Drutman and Mark Copelovitch say that the next time Democrats have a trifecta in Washington they must push proportional representation and other major reforms to America’s political system.

In the heavily gerrymandered Buckeye State, the GOP-controlled legislature rules without fear of voters, and it’s hard at work dismantling democracy.

Donald Trump and JD Vance, that’s who. Is the global tide turning against authoritarian illiberalism?

Freedom House’s verdict was bad. V-Dem’s was worse. And today, Bright Line Watch’s is also dire. But we can still turn it around.

Historian Thomas Zimmer says Trump is still dangerous, but that his authoritarian project has been derailed on a number of fronts.

Historian Thomas Zimmer says that American democracy is still in a bad place but that Trump has been slowed on a number of fronts.

A respected annual report on freedom around the world could deliver a shocking rating to the United States.

The president says he’ll do it “whether approved by Congress or not!” He can’t legally do that—but that hasn’t stopped him before.

Trump’s revenge quest over the 2020 election has reached its next stage.

Speaking on Donald Trump’s behalf, Karoline Leavitt insisted the president was talking “facetiously.”

Donald Trump will never stop longing to be a dictator, even as his body betrays him.

The senators are sending mixed messages on Trump’s threats to democracy. Time to get it together.

The Nobel Committee delivered a sharp message on the global threat to democracy, as it awarded this year’s peace prize to Maria Corina Machado.

The White House aide thinks Trump has ultimate power—and he admitted as much.

What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding

The Brazilian president made a clear jab at Donald Trump before his big speech at the United Nations.

Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

Fake electors in Michigan will no longer face trial despite signing a paper claiming Trump won the state in the 2020 election. (He didn’t.)

Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth, says Trump is gaining power at a faster rate than many autocrats abroad did.