Human nature encompasses a wide spectrum of characteristics, ranging from profound empathy to extreme selfishness. When ...

To a casual observer, Donald Trump’s claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and dogs seemed like a bizarre or mistaken claim that ultimately fueled millions of memes, jokes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autocratic regimes like Russia are becoming increasingly bold in their efforts to undermine the principles and norms that came to ...

Alexander Libman, an assistant professor of international political economy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, visited Georgetown to discuss his upcoming paper on autocratic cooperation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is no longer a democracy. At least, that's the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace, which ...

It is often said – by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and many others – that soccer is the “most democratic sport.” That sentiment is based in large part on the sport’s global appeal and long history ...

"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book "Development as Freedom." The answer is a ...

A key and crucial attribute of autocratic regimes is that they permit neither dissent nor contradiction. The notion of truth does not matter. In fact, myth and fantasy—as well as unpredictability and ...

Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time. Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, ...