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 ...

Government is serious business. However, it cannot effectively operate like a business, is often in opposition to business, is by definition a service ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The early weeks of Trump’s presidency back in 2017 felt like a jolt, but mainly because his bombastic, unpredictable public ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...