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VladisChern / Getty / The Atlantic The Terrifying Inadequacy of American Election Law
The country has narrowly averted catastrophic deadlocks over the presidential-election outcome before. We may not be so fortunate in 2020.
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Drew Angerer / Getty America’s COVID-19 Disaster Is a Setback for Democracy
If the country’s institutions cannot function effectively during a crisis, and especially if a view takes hold that authoritarian regimes are managing the crisis more decisively, a grim future lies ahead.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
The country is perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social control—with implications for democracies worldwide.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters There Is a Peaceful Way Out of the North Korea Crisis
Kim Jong Un’s nuclear and missile programs represent one of the most dangerous challenges since the end of the Cold War. But there are opportunities to stop them.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images A 'City on a Hill' as a Fortress in a Moat
The notion that one form of prejudice can defeat another is an illusion.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters The Most Urgent Questions About the Russia Hacks
No foreign power has ever intervened to try to shape a U.S. election with this kind of sophistication and potency.
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Reuters via Sputnik Russia and the Threat to Liberal Democracy
How Vladimir Putin is making the world safe for autocracy
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Reuters It Could Happen Here
Democracy is facing setbacks around the world, but there hasn't been reason to doubt America's resilience—until now.
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Jacky Naegelen / Reuters What Is America Fighting For?
The United States has been at war with ISIS for more than a year. But you cannot beat a surging ideology without a higher sense of purpose.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Ending the Presidential-Debate Duopoly
Including a third-party candidate would reinvigorate American democracy.
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Anis Mili/Reuters Tunisia Is Still a Success
The recent terrorist attack doesn't signal the country's slide into violence and repression.
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Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters Democracy's Deepening Recession
Around the world, the advance of freedom hinges on "swing states." And they're swinging in the wrong direction.
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Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters The Betrayal of Tahrir Square
An Oscar-nominated film about the Egyptian revolution is banned in Egypt. That says a lot.
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Reuters The Specter of Mass Killings in Burma
Religious intolerance is threatening the country’s tenuous transition to democracy.
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Jason Lee/Reuters Chinese Communism and the 70-Year Itch
China's government is approaching an age that has often proven fatal for other single-party regimes. Will Xi Jinping make the necessary reforms to avoid a crisis?
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All Fall Down: The Uncertain Future of the Only Solution for Israel and Palestine
As the world's only Jewish country celebrates its 65th anniversary, its survival still depends on one outcome: two viable states between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.
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The Case for Intervening in Syria
More than two years into the uprising, the balance of power does not look like it's tipping in favor of the rebels.
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Venezuela's Upcoming Election Won't Be Any Fairer Than the Last One
Chavez established a frightening, repressive form of fake democracy. All signs indicate that his successors will pick up where he left off.
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'Forsaken by the West': Obama and the Betrayal of Democracy in Bahrain
With the world watching other Middle East hotspots, the country's monarchy has continued suppressing anti-authoritarian dissidents -- and the White House has let it happen.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: From Politician to 'Democracy Icon' and Back Again
At a time of severe U.S. cynicism about party politics, Burma's living symbol of resistance to dictatorship embraces it wholeheartedly.
