Similarly, the ultra-right AfD in Germany and Marine Le Pen’s National Party in France pose a real threat to democracy in Europe. As democracy is eroded, human rights are ignored, and the rule of law ...

The fortress mentality, as Achille Mbembe states in his work on necropolitics, is not just defensive; it builds new ways to control. Borders grow inside and outside the nation. They decide who enters ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has unveiled its latest list of “press freedom predators,” accusing world leaders, armed ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt Hungary from new U.S. sanctions ...

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that he will need to convince U.S. President Donald Trump that Hungary ...

The adult in the room among Europe’s populists, the Italian prime had her work cut out for her with Orbán in town.

The authorities have suspended two of the country's most high-profile organizations. Dozens more are under investigation, ...

While the causes of modern authoritarianism have been hotly debated, studies increasingly point to income inequality as the prime culprit.

Former Canadian opposition leader Michael Ignatieff says no sector is secure after what has happened in the U.S.

Düzgit US President Donald Trump’s ferocious assault on American institutions over the last nine months is a particularly morbid symptom of the global decline of democracy. But Trump has merely ...

President Donald Trump greets Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct.