Freedom House is seeking nominations for the 2026 Mark Palmer Prize, which recognizes the work of officials who advance democracy and human rights.

The support will help sustain Freedom House’s flagship annual report, which tracks the status of political rights and civil liberties around the world.

Charlie Kirk’s murder in Utah is the latest in a series of attacks that threaten the basic operations of American politics, governance, and civil discourse.

Governments are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down on free expression and access to information. Information can be the difference between life and death. The coronavirus pandemic has ...

Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...

Amid declining faith in the international system, a different form of protectionism is gaining steam with adverse consequences for billions of internet users. Authorities in a growing number of ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

The people of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, traditionally enjoyed substantial civil liberties and the rule of law under their local constitution, the Basic Law. However, the ...

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She spent a decade as the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, which worked with campaigns, ...

“The values of Buddhist ideals and the China Dream agree and understand [each other].… Together they achieve the ideological foundation of the struggle and the dream of the great rejuvenation of the ...