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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

First of all, is America really a democracy? How can a single election pose a “threat to our” system of government? For most of this country’s history, participating in “our democracy ...