If we continue to go down this road, we are in real danger of losing our beloved democracy. This guest essay reflects the views of Tweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th ...

In Africa and the Middle East (with the exception of Israel), democracy has fared less well. Zambia, with a vigorous multiparty system, meets most tests, and Morocco, blessed with 1,100 years of ...

Adapted from “If We Are Brave: Essays From Black Americana,” by Theodore R. Johnson. Altar call at the Southern Black church of my youth was serious business. It was the culmination of Sunday ...

Human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights. Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran on Jan. 16, 2024. Human ...

News release Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6885 announced that Arundhathi Jathin, from Valencia High School, is the first-place applicant in the post’s “Voice of Democracy” essay competition ...

Democracy Needs the Loser The observance of defeat, especially in an election, is often all that keeps a state from tipping into violence. By Barbara F. Walter ...

Essays on democracy draw attention to critical threats, explore safeguards ahead of Jan. 6 Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Notre Dame ...

My essay laid out a wide array of harms that social media has inflicted on society. Political polarization is just one of them, but it is central to the story of rising democratic dysfunction.

And yet, his “undermining democracy” essay downplayed the breadth of evidence and studies critiquing the concept of—to cite one example—filter bubbles.

And my prayer is that the essays that follow in this series will encourage and equip evangelicals in our diverse democracy as they ask what it means to be a good and faithful neighbor. John Inazu ...

Editor’s note: Each year, nearly 27,000 high school students compete for more than $2 million in scholarships and incentives in the annual Voice of Democracy essay contest sponsored by Veterans of ...