There are still a number of communist parties active in the world, among them those in China and Cyprus, which, in their different ways kept the red flag flying after what was once called the end of ...

It’s the year 2026, and sometimes it feels as if we’re taking a nice leisurely walk through a Museum of Wretched Ideas. Consider what’s happening at home. Tariffs raise prices and restrain economic ...

Frank Dikötter’s new history of the Chinese Communist Party paints a powerful but incomplete picture of its rise to power.

Pitzer professor David Goldblatt is obsessed with football (soccer). After finishing his undergraduate years at Cambridge University, a young Goldblatt visited a place he hadn’t been since his ...

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. Investopedia / Paige McLaughlin Communism is a ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

Around the world, democracy as a system of government is backsliding. After more than 50 years of liberal democracy in ascendancy, democratic progress plateaued around the turn of the century and is ...

In keeping with my last letter (“The haters are wrong: President Trump works hard to help the American people,” March 4 LNP | LancasterOnline), I state that I am an American first. And I have been a ...

A memory from the Massapequa, N.Y., public schools of the late 1950s and early 1960s: We had regular desk drills. The school alarm would pierce the air and teachers would instruct us to slide from our ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...