There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, citizens elect people as “delegates” to the legislature to formulate laws and ...

In recent years, Republicans at all levels have emphasized that our form of government is a republic ... to the word “republic” is “representative democracy.” Somehow, Republicans are ...

Meanwhile, Trump eliminated what Goss called a “core tool” in forcing institutions to address sex discrimination in hiring, ...

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

Instead of DEI-based vetting, Trump has installed a new system, the “BLT” hiring guide. BLT, in this case, stands for ...

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has urged the UK government to adopt the contentious definition of Islamophobia proposed in 2018 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Muslims ...

Still, the chaotic 48 hours suggested that some in the Trump administration had overestimated their ability to impose ...

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 ...

House Republicans just blocked Democrats from trying to force Elon Musk to testify about how he’s destroying the government.

In this new book, Our Friend Kais Saied, Essay on Tunisian Democracy, I look at the restoration of authoritarianism under ...

Three weeks in, the change President Donald Trump has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding programs, sparking widespread public outcry ...

But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th century BC, differs significantly from contemporary representative democracy. In Athenian democracy, only male ...