Supporting free societies is bedrock of U.S. foreign policy amid increasing threats from extremism and rising authoritarianism around the world.

Democracy, it is often heard these days ... He was editorial page editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris from 2003 to 2013.

It should be viewed on a sliding scale. Freedom House, a nonpartisan international democracy watchdog, ranks countries on a 100-point scale based on the factors I mentioned earlier, among others, and ...