The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue

Although the overall state of freedom in the world has clearly improved over the last two decades, more recent trends are worrisome. In 2009, declines in freedom outnumbered gains for…

The Arab experience shows that the same media that facilitate the toppling of dictators can make it harder to build democracy.

Democracies are grappling with an era of transformation: Identity is increasingly replacing economics as the major axis of world politics. Technological change has deepened social fragmentation, and trust in institutions…