Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of ...

Global freedom has declined for a 20th year, according to the latest Freedom in the World rankings from NGO Freedom House.

Around the world, freedom is taking a beating. Jamie Fly is CEO of Freedom House. Yana Gorokhovskaia is research director for ...

Today's One Sheet finds the newsletters worried about research that shows America slipping into an autocracy and the FCC ...

A pro-democracy research group said Wednesday that freedom in the United States has declined to its lowest level since it ...

The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

Press freedom in the Americas suffered a "dramatic deterioration" in 2025, a regional watchdog said Tuesday in an assessment ...

Press freedom in the Americas suffered a “dramatic deterioration” in 2025, a regional watchdog said Tuesday in an assessment of conditions for the profession in 23 countries across the Western ...

A monitoring watchdog says press freedom across the Americas dropped sharply in 2025, with more killings, arrests and intimidation of media workers.

WASHINGTON (7News) — 7News was there on Saturday as hundreds of Iranian Americans rallied for their freedom, democracy, and sovereignty after Iran’s supreme leader was killed in late February.

While the path to regime change in Iran remains frustratingly unclear, some Iranians stand ready to take up arms after decades of authoritarian rule, an Iranian man inside the war zone told NBC News.