Freedom House Report Finds Freedom On The Wane Worldwide
The annual survey of the state of global freedom includes the world's two biggest democracies — India and the U.S. — among nations where freedom is declining.
For nearly a half century, Freedom House â the avowedly non-partisan democracy advocacy organization whose founders include Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Wilkie â has published an annual report on the state of freedom in the world. This year's edition, titled "A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy," is just out, and it is decidedly downbeat in its assessment of where worldwide freedom stands today.
"Democracy and pluralism are under assault," writes the report's author, Sarah Repucci. "The unchecked brutality of autocratic regimes and the ethical decay of democratic powers are combining to make
