I once believed that Indiana Sen. Ron Alting was a moderate Republican and an advocate of liberal democracy.Alting’s recent post on social media stated that redistricting now “will help to ensure the ...

Hungary’s illiberal prime minister could lose power in elections on April 12, while Trump speeds toward disastrous midterms. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media ...

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth is joined by author William Galston to talk about his new piece in the Wall Street Journal making the case for continuing to fund the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s long-rule, Hungary morphed into an illiberal Democracy, and saw a significant backsliding of democracy and democratic institutions. But with Orban’s loss in Hungary ...

On May 28, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish leader “who never loses elections,” won the runoff of Turkey’s presidential poll against his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Erdogan has been at Turkey’s ...