A protester speaks during a rally on November 8, 2025 in London, UK. Demonstrators marched to show solidarity with the people of Sudan and call for an end to UK arms sales to the UAE, which ...

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, ...

At various points in the Iran war, President Donald Trump has implied that U.S. bombings are an avenue to greater stability in the Middle East. By removing the theocratic Iranian regime and ...

Practically every person in the Middle East has been affected by the chain of events put into motion by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Tens of thousands of people, mostly Gazans, have been ...

A journal called Liberal Currents recently invited me to contribute to a scholarly symposium on what the editor, Adam Gurri, described as “how we can move to a new, stable democratic regime after ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

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“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...

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Previous attempts to restore Middle Eastern monarchies have met with little success. “The Iranian people have called on me to lead the transition after the regime is gone,” declared exiled Iranian ...

Foreign policy expert Josh Muravchik joined the RealClearPolitics podcast on Friday to discuss how possible a democratic Iran really is. Muravchik argues that Iran’s educated, cosmopolitan ...