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Former populist PM Andrej Babiš is eyeing a triumphant comeback days before the country goes to the polls

Trapped between Putin and Trump, EU citizens understand the grave dangers facing the continent. Their leaders urgently need to face reality, too, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns

As the constitutional order frays, the US could look to Brazil as a demonstration of a functioning democracy

The New York Times reports that a senior Department of Justice official recently “instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate” the Open Society Foundations – philanthropies funded by the billionaire George Soros.

France’s human rights record is under fire, with a new report warning that freedoms once taken for granted are being steadily chipped away.

The recent death of Robert Redford was a reminder of just how much All the President’s Men unsettled old certainties about American democracy. An exposé of the Watergate scandal of 1972 (when members of the campaign to re-elect Richard Nixon were caught planting secret recording devices at the Democratic National…

The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley