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Samuel Kling, Florita Gunasekara, and Steven Bosacker examine the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.

President Jair Bolsonaro might be leaving office, but the country’s political trust issues are far from resolved.

The 2005 Chicago Council Survey explored public opinion on democracy promotion post-September 11 world as one of the core principles of US foreign policy

Can an administration that up to this point has been belligerent towards traditional US democratic allies and has rejected many forms of multilateralism be able to turn the page and shift from "America First" to "American Led"?

The fallout from the removal of President Pedro Castillo has revealed a young democracy in dire straits.

John Austin shares insights from a transatlantic convening that explores the political repercussions of economic inequality and extremist ideology.

A plot to overthrow the German government highlights the risks—and reach—of unchecked conspiracy in an age of mistrust, writes Chris Morris.

Leaders from the US and Europe have much to learn from one another in building strategies to foster economic renewal in formerly industrial regions.

The world's democracies need a way to fight back against coercive economic actions by authoritarian governments, argue Ivo Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Advancing the group's pillars of prosperity and development will be at the very heart of competition with China in the coming decade.