Americans who are appalled at what is happening to our country under this mad man Trump must wake up. We have reached a ...

After a year of new leadership, court fights, dramatic change to the federal government, and deep political division, where ...

At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and ...

There has been much talk of late about the institution of American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. This discussion has focused largely on the formal legal basis for democratic institutions ...

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit ...

Recently, many friends have been struggling to make sense of attacks on our democracy, feeling bewilderment, frustration and other complex, confusing and frequently contradictory emotions. Yet ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

About half of American adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only about one-quarter think it’s doing “very” or “moderately” well, according ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...