Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

"... There are a few things we must faithfully stand by as members of our nation. One of these we opened with above: mercy." ...

We need an American equivalent of the Arab Spring, an overwhelming and sustained demand for fundamental rights, good ...

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and ...

Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth ...

The University of Montana will receive a $500,00 grant over three years from the Mellon Foundation for a new Democracy ...

Nujoma, who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, ...

our obligations to democracy are finished until the next election. Scholar and author Eddie Glaude Jr. has spent his career studying the perils of that approach throughout history, particularly ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

When historians of the next century consider our current generation, my deep hope is that they tell of a time in American history when our democracy was stressed to its foundations and it held.