Women’s rights are declining all over the world — and the global rise of authoritarian regimes may be to blame, according to a new report from the United Nations. This week, the U.N. kicked ...

It is separate from the newsroom. When a political leader wants to move a democracy toward a more authoritarian form of government, he often sets out to undermine independent sources of ...

Joan Hoey, director of The Democracy Index at the Economist Intelligence Unit, discusses the latest findings of its report noting an increase of eight in the number of authoritarian regimes in the ...