Facebook’s faces a litmus test in Cambodia, notes Fiona Kelliher, a freelance journalist covering politics, human rights, and digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia. A company verdict on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s… Read more »
Global democracy is under siege. According to Freedom House’s authoritative “Freedom in the World” report, 8 of 10 people in the world now live in countries rated either “Not Free”… Read more »
Artificial intelligence has “turbo-charged” existing forms of repression, giving authoritarian regimes disturbing new “social engineering tools” to monitor and shape citizen behavior, says Stanford University’s Eileen Donahoe. “We are in… Read more »
Global internet freedom fell for the 12th straight year, led by Russia as well as by worsening conditions in Myanmar, Sudan and Libya, says a new report from Freedom House…. Read more »
The U.S. Congress is to consider bipartisan legislation to boost funding and modernize methods used to defend democracy abroad, reports suggest. The initiative will establish new authorities and provide additional… Read more »
Democracies must shift from a defensive posture in the face of autocratic resurgence and democratic decline, and seize the opportunity to reverse these trends at a potential “inflection point remembered… Read more »
Are man-made crises like the one in Shanghai inevitable under China’s authoritarian system? China is facing what is arguably the worst crisis in governance since the end of the Cultural… Read more »
American Purpose hosts a discussion with Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Realism and Democracy, on Democracy Promotion—Lessons Learned…. Read more »
In the wake of the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy, a formal Alliance of Democracies would provide a highly visible platform for fostering solidarity in the face of common threats and… Read more »
Canada will make support for democracy and human rights a foreign policy priority, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Support for democracy and human rights should be “a core priority in Canada’s… Read more »