America remains the world’s preeminent technology power. It’s time to finally deploy our national capabilities to take back ...

According to the 2026 edition of Freedom in the World, media freedom, personal expression, and due process registered the ...

A successful response must include stronger coordination among democracies, reformed democracy assistance, and more strategic ...

As the democratic community adapts to the severe funding cuts and operational disruptions of 2025, this year’s Freedom in the ...

Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the methodology and report acknowledgements. Although the online environment in Armenia remains open, internet freedom ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

Turkey’s political rights rating declined from 3 to 4, its civil liberties rating declined from 4 to 5, and it received a downward trend arrow due to the security and political repercussions of an ...

Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new ...

The following countries—and one territory—featured important developments in 2020 that affected their democratic trajectory, and deserve special scrutiny in 2021. The road to an open democratic ...

This special report details how the Belarusian regime displaces, indoctrinates, reeducates, and militarizes Ukrainian children in the service of the broader Russian state policy of eradicating ...

The people of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, traditionally enjoyed substantial civil liberties and the rule of law under their local constitution, the Basic Law. However, the ...