Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily ...

Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

Much of today’s public discourse suggests that democracy is eroding — under threat, unraveling, or being dismantled. These conversations often fall along familiar partisan lines, with each side ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to ...

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 ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

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 ...

Many South Africans feel politically homeless, reducing democracy to a mere voting menu. Democracy must be actively pursued ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...