Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

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

A South Carolina District 5 school board meeting is called into session on January 22, 2024. Democracy, at its core, is about people coming together to civilly govern themselves. With the rise in ...

Editorial: Gerrymandering is a serious threat to voters’ faith in democracy. It’s time for Congress to take action.

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have accelerated a process of democratic erosion in the United States. In just two months, the president and his allies have issued executive ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was born into Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo world in 1935. In 1953, I defected from Walter Ulbricht’s Stasi world to the West. Now I and my fellow Americans live under Donald Trump’s ICE enforcers. At the ...

More than a decade ago, during the Syrian Civil War, the northern Syrian city of Manbij was the setting for a real-world, real-time experiment in democracy. And that experiment is captured in the new ...

Recent political events have sparked renewed discussion around American democracy and what it means to be an “American.” The mainstream media and academia have been studying every move of President ...