World / Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past forty years have proven ...

Applebaum: About older American traditions of state capture. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions. He packed the courts. And, once you have the courts and the legislature—and ...

Ancient Greece is where the first form of direct democracy was developed. It was called demokratia, literally meaning "rule ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

Recent studies on economic growth report that preventing the abuse of state power through democratic institutions is critical to a nation's development. However, there has been little prior ...

Journalist, Keith Burris, investigates the challenges in healing our democracy.

Headlining his first public rally since a failed assassination attempt against him a week ago and two days after formally accepting the GOP's nomination, former President Donald Trump told a ...

This is apparently just a matter of the philosophy of democracy. This is a bad way of mapping the terrain. First, democracy does not require denying that some are fit to rule others.

None of us should be silent about the recent use of federal agents by this administration to bully, arrest and investigate political opponents. Just as none of us should accept as normal or okay its ...

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that the "tone of our political discourse" puts freedom at risk, as ...

Amid an unusually hectic summer for national politics, a group of teenage voters met in Washington, DC, over a July weekend to discuss politics.

Conspiracy theories: “Warning lights on the dashboard of democracy” Journalist Phil Tinline explains how the fear of losing democracy gave us America's first autocrat ...