Thomas Carothers' article "Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror" (January/February 2003) critiques the Bush administration's democracy promotion record and offers some broad recommendations on how ...

Support for the democratic opposition to Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro is among the few international policy matters that have unified Democrats and Republicans in recent years, and it is ...

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have slashed U.S. democracy promotion funds and programs. Rubio’s reorganization gutted the nearly half-century-old Bureau of Democracy, Human ...

The Trump administration has received sustained criticism for its “America First” approach to international affairs and its perceived abandonment of democracy promotion abroad. But yesterday’s White ...

Alfredo Carrillo is a staff writer for The Hoya. Democracy can successfully develop in any country over time as long as strong institutions uphold freedom and equality, argued former Secretary of ...

Ideologically, the United States is a self-proclaimed promoter and protector of democracy in the world. Its democracy policy has evolved over the past century. The U.S. fought World War II, in part, ...

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about drug prices, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) If Trump and Rubio interceded to ...