In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of ...

We speak with political scientist Jeffrey Winters about his new book, The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies. Winters argues that democracy’s failure to address wealth inequality is by ...

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EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...