Kettering Foundation

Watch as KF Senior Fellow Timothy Snyder explores Péter Magyar's electoral landslide in Hungary and what this could signal for US politics. Democracy depends on strong institutions, competitive elections, and civic engagement—not just personalities. https://bit.ly/4vNymta

The 2026 midterms are about more than who wins—they’re about what we stand for. In this panel, KF Senior Fellow William J. Barber II focuses the conversation on the voices too often left out and points to the power of organized, collective action to shape what comes next. https://bit.ly/4vGOPiK

As inequality rises, civic space shrinks, and nonprofit funding reduces across Latin America, organizations continue to adapt through collaboration and resilience. The latest from #ResilienceResistance highlights how the Transformative Dialogues are shaping a more just and inclusive future. https://bit.ly/3Qr4R0d

WATCH: KF Senior Fellow Timothy Snyder on CNN's Amanpour. As he explains, Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary shows that authoritarian leaders are not inevitable or invincible. https://lnkd.in/gjG87xYT

In her bestselling book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, KF Senior Fellow Ruth Ben-Ghiat explores how authoritarian leaders rise and rule—through loyalty, propaganda, and fear. Recognizing the pattern is essential to protecting democratic institutions. https://bit.ly/4tzAZgT

A warning from KF Senior Fellow Timothy Snyder: The US is actively undermining its own status as a global superpower—not through external defeat, but through internal political decay. He makes the case that the greatest threat to US power isn't a rival nation; it's the erosion of our own democratic institutions. https://bit.ly/4u83Ybe

In recent remarks made at the Stanford University School of Law, KF Senior Fellow J. Michael Luttig argues, "We are desperately in need of a revival, a revival that will renew and revitalize the flagging faith of the American people in our Constitution and the Rule of Law, the organic law of our ordered liberty." https://bit.ly/4mTQY6P

WATCH: KF Senior Fellow Timothy Snyder connects global power dynamics to democracy here at home. Understanding these forces isn’t abstract; it’s essential to defending democratic institutions and holding government accountable. https://bit.ly/4d33Xj8

KF Senior Fellow David French on Pope vs. POTUS: The feud "reveals the moral bankruptcy of the [Iran] war, it illuminates the risks to our alliances and it exposes the hollow core of the new right’s Christian nationalism." https://nyti.ms/3P231T1

Growing political pressure on the Federal Reserve puts more than policy at risk. New in #FromManyWe, KF Research Fellow Erica Frantz explains how personalist leadership threatens sound monetary policy and democratic norms. https://bit.ly/4mOzXLl