Democracy on decline in health checkup

Freedom House warned of a continued decline in global democracy in an annual checkup blaming a “leaderless struggle” undercut by autocrats and populists.

By Arete News - March 4, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at a February 29, 2020 White House news briefing on the global coronavirus outbreak (AN/D. Myles Cullen)

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