This two-step strategy has helped other countries halt democratic backsliding. It can work in the U.S. if we act quickly.

Ending his extortion racket will demand not only courageous institutions—it will take the political opposition of us all. Ad Policy A woman speaks in a mega-phone while demonstrators holding a Trump ...

Conservatives and liberals clash frequently on a wide array of issues, from taxes to trade, from deficits to defense. But their greatest conflict may lie in their contrasting attitudes toward civil ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Early this week, Senegalese President Macky Sall finally bowed to mounting civic ...

Donald Trump’s first 100 days reflect a paradox. On the one hand, he has overturned features of the world that long seemed fundamental. These include, to take just a few examples, the federal civil ...

As Donald Trump begins his second term, the nonprofit world is rightfully shoring up its defenses to protect immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive freedoms, and basic civil liberties. Such efforts ...

This piece is part of the CSIS International Security Program’s Transition46 series on Defense360. The response to the coronavirus pandemic presents the Biden administration with its first defining ...

Despite the occasional setback or spark of progress, civic space in Mexico has remained mostly stable since the country elected its first opposition president in 2000. While Mexico’s laws ...

From girls in rural Afghanistan, to children in immigration detention on the US-Mexico border, to grandmothers fleeing war in Sri Lanka, throughout my career working on children’s rights, I’ve heard ...

MUMBAI: Civil society groups in Maharashtra are preparing to launch protests against the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, calling it “draconian” and an attempt to suppress dissent ...

The EU spends money on civil society exchanges yet has no guiding principles and no coordination – and therefore a higher score for resources than unity. Outcome is hard to assess. Europeans would ...