BERLIN — The recent Republican National Convention was scandalous for many reasons, from the misuse of the White House as a campaign prop, in violation of the Hatch Act and longstanding norms, and the brazen mendacity of its speakers, to the parade of Trump family members.

SARAJEVO — Ever since the double disasters of 2016 — the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and US President Donald Trump’s election — there has been widespread anxiety about a “global wave” of populism, and hand-wringing over the follies of so-called direct democracy.

PRINCETON — It is now common knowledge that many democracies around the world are under pressure. But mounting threats to a particularly important democratic right have not received nearly enough attention.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has, of her own volition, stripped her Conservative Party of its governing parliamentary majority by calling an early election.If she stays on as prime minister, she will also strip British citizens of the political and economic rights conferred

Poland’s turn towards authoritarian rule has set off alarm bells across the European Union and within NATO.Since coming to power in October, Jarosław Kaczynski’s Law and Justice Party (PiS) has attacked the country’s constitutional court, politicised the judiciary and the civil s