It’s not every day that a political leader talking about the state of U.S. democracy is able to hit two tricky notes at the ...

What we saw with [Elon] Musk and Trump, it’s basically creating money and power. It’s like centaur in the same hands. That’s ...

I’m really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country ...

What Is Democracy? is a film of ideas, and it is pitched at the kind of people who would go to a film of ideas: students of political philosophy; intellectuals or would-be intellectuals.

A 'No Kings' Day of Defiance had a peaceful, impassioned crowd chanting "Dump Trump' and carrying signs such as "Democracy ...

Democracy in some Western countries has always had a universalizing effect, inasmuch as the new administrative class hoped to apply their “science of government” in all climes and continents.

Jackson did not say what, specifically, concerned her about the state of democracy, though she has recently written a series ...

In a democracy, the rights of others are considered when developing policies and the law. We reject a sovereign and share power using written law. A government belongs to its people.

Democracy, in my experiences in the civil rights movement, meant agency. It conveyed the vast, often invisible and scorned potential of African Americans for action, and also the potential of all ...

In its first five minutes, “What Is Democracy?,” a new documentary by the writer, organizer, and filmmaker Astra Taylor, provides more possible answers to her titular question than most ...

A smart doc that’s as earnest and scattered as the viewers likely to seek it out, Astra Taylor’s What Is Democracy? looks around at the world and realizes that even those of us on the right ...

A project published today from USA TODAY senior reporter and assistant Washington editor Ledge King examines the state of American democracy. King: This has been something I and other journalists ...