This past weekend in Tulsa, a voice that sounded like my former teacher and longtime mentor, Representative John Waldron, ...

Evan Osnos on how the rise of the ultrarich—and their increasing detachment from reality—could be the downfall of democracy.

The Black Papers continue a proud tradition of truth-telling, from the 1968 Kerner Commission to the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana.

Yet, Fukuyama’s argument is oddly straightforward and even uncontroversial. Liberal democracy’s two greatest ideological competitors—fascism and communism—had taken their best shot and missed.

The theme for this year’s contest was “My Voice in America’s Democracy”. The Patriot Pen Essay was for grades six to eight and the Voice of Democracy Essay was for grades nine and up.

The following essay by Hannah Rollins, a Battle Mountain High School student, won at the local VFW Post level and won second place at the district level. The Vail Daily is publishing the essay on ...

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 ...

Election-interference charges against former President Donald Trump in Atlanta, after his claims of fraud in 2020, make the issue of “democracy” more salient—and more divisive.

With the news that more regional papers are cutting jobs, it’s time we took seriously the damaging effects of losing local papers in non-metropolitan areas.

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 August 24, 2024 ...

Emmalee M. D’Aniello, daughter of Chris and Anne D’Aniello of Great Barrington and a senior at Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, is the first place winner in the Veterans of ...

With the political situation as dire as many feel it to be, the January 6th, 2025, Project’s essays outline a few practical steps that can be taken to strengthen and safeguard democracy in America.