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The US is undergoing democratic backsliding or competitive authoritarian tendencies, with concentrated executive power and attacks on independent institutions.
Measured by leading comparative indices and academic studies, the United States shows a clear and recent trajectory of democratic backsliding—sharp declines on multiple indicators since 2016 that, by ...
Eurasia Group’s Top Risks 2026 names a U.S. “political revolution”—centered on President Trump’s efforts to dismantle institutional checks and capture government machinery—as the single biggest source...
The United States faces a real and documented risk of democratic erosion that some analysts describe as sliding toward autocracy; experts and institutions warn that coordinated attacks on checks and p...
The claim that the United States "has moved through all steps associated with transition from democracy to autocracy" overstates the case: scholars and watchdogs document clear democratic backsliding ...
The claim that "The United States is officially no longer considered a democracy and is now globally recognized as an authoritarian state" is not supported by a single, formal international reclassifi...