The Big Beautiful Bill proposes devastating cuts to clean energy, climate investments, worker protections and infrastructure. It must not pass.

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.

The New York Times piece, a guest essay originally titled "Elections Are Bad for Democracy," by contributing opinion writer Adam Grant, went so far as to argue that American’s voting system ...