“Many Americans are justifiably frightened by what is happening to our country. But protecting our democracy requires more than just fright or outrage. We must learn from other countries to see the ...

Harvard professor Daniel Ziblatt opened the University’s Democracy Summit and hosted a talk about the United States democracy at the Spurlock Museum on Monday. The Democracy Summit aims to tell people ...

Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, professors of government at Harvard University and co-authors of the book “How Democracies Die,” spoke to the University community on Monday about the current ...

When historians one day try to explain the decline of 21st-century American democracy, they may well point to Republican leaders’ willingness to minimize and excuse the violence at the Capitol on ...

Talk about coming full circle. When Harvard University political scientist Daniel Ziblatt arrives at the Occidental Center for the Arts next week to discuss his latest book, the New York Times ...

What if Trump Does Everything He’s Promised—and the People Don’t Care? The authors of the bestselling “How Democracies Die” talk with editor Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of ...

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt look to history to provide a guide for defending democratic systems under threat: it is possible to fight back What’s the worst thing to happen to US democracy ...

It’s suddenly a very urgent and important question. Daniel Ziblatt’s new book arrives just in time to deliver a powerful and supremely relevant answer. Don’t be misled by the aggressively ...