If I’m completely honest, I can’t recall all the twists and turns of 1984. I probably read it in high school or maybe as an undergrad, somewhere alongside Animal Farm. They’re the kind of books ...

In the context of the ongoing negotiations to end the four-decade conflict between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Parliament in August 2025 established a ...

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...

In practice, most of our experiences of shared realities are not involved in truth. Think of myths, neighbourly feeling, or ...

Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths ...

The United States is on a downward trajectory when it comes to respect for civil rights, with an international monitoring group warning that democracy is under threat with the Trump administration’s ...

On April 29, 1999, precision-guided NATO bombs tore through the brick facades of two defense-ministry buildings in Belgrade, the capital of the rump state of Yugoslavia. The targets were chosen more ...

Mr. Posner is a lawyer and human rights advocate who was the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2009 to 2013. In the late 1980s, Joseph Nye, the Harvard political ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has stopped funding practically all U.S. government work supporting democracy, human rights and press freedom around the globe. President Trump issued an ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other ...

(Nairobi) – Chad’s new constitutional amendment abolishing presidential term limits is a serious setback for the rule of law and democracy, Human Rights Watch said today. The change paves the way for ...