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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-27T02:38:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://stallman.org",
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    "According\nto the V-Dem Institute"
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  "textContent": "According\nto the V-Dem Institute, democracy is in rapid decline globally, and the US is leading the decline.\n\nWorld-wide, only 18 countries are observed to be democratizing. The article does not give a comparable count of countries that are autocratizing, but they are 40% of the world's population.",
  "title": "Democracy metrics in steep backslide, US"
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