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 ...

These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are longer-running developments that threaten the health of our representative democracy ... in the institutions of government.

Our nation’s history has been shaped by the work of making real the ideal of equality that was written into our founding documents and has long been regarded as a measure of truly representative ...

Classifying parties as populist Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high ...

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 ...

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.

Congress is proving little match for the Department of Government Efficiency as wary lawmakers watch it march through the ...

When Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts in the New York hush-money case, “Blago” defended his fellow convict. “I love ...

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 ...