The United States is at a crossroads. Our democracy is in peril. Since taking office on January 20th, Donald Trump is recklessly and callously signing executive orders designed to disrupt ...

President Joe Biden, in his farewell address to the nation Wednesday, warned that American democracy is being threatened by a burgeoning oligarchy.

It's easy to think that once our preferred candidates win, our obligations to democracy are finished until the next election. Scholar and author Eddie Glaude Jr. has spent his career studying the ...

it is right and maybe even righteous to overthrow democracy rather than permit social change.” For Beauchamp’s definition of political “reaction,” he offers, citing scholar Corey Robin’s ...

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So what was Plato’s argument? And could it hold the key to understanding why, across the west, confidence in democracy is declining? Looking for something good? Cut through the noise with a ...

It is no secret that American democracy is in crisis. From the 2020 flood of actions and disinformation that culminated in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, to the repeated threats to weaponize the rule ...

But this time it’s Republicans who will bear primary responsibility for protecting U.S. democracy. We’ve studied democratic erosion in countries around the world, and our research has found ...

Elon Musk almost certainly fits the definition today ... a journalist with the anti-authoritarian group Protect Democracy, said in a recent interview with The 5-Minute Fix about the state of ...

The capitalist financial system blocks democratic control over investment by its very nature. We need a new model of democratic finance that can address our urgent social and environmental needs.

The definition includes some criticisms of Israel ... to host an event “on the substantive issues of Israeli Jewish democracy.” The university also must post on its website the following ...

But those sorts of efforts are faithful to the basic principle of democratic accountability, the idea that a single individual cannot change laws without getting Congress to go along ― or without ...