It will take a “total mobilization of our forces,” in the words of new Autocracy in America host Garry Kasparov.

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

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

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 ...

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

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His ...

First, democracy does not require denying that some are fit to rule others. Instead, especially in representative democracy, we might think of it as a procedure for figuring out who is fit to rule ...

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

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 ...

First-time presidential voters met to discuss politics and democracy. Here’s what they had to say ... “In the first election I ever voted in, our park tax won by 52 votes.