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 ...

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

This is what democracy looks like!”; “Whose street? Our street!” Yes, in the city that Donald Trump once considered his own, it couldn’t have been clearer that it truly wasn’t faintly ...

A protest can be a fine way to get people’s attention—particularly the attention of those in positions of power. But one of ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His ...

These days, we hear a lot about the United States crossing the Rubicon from democracy to authoritarianism. But where are we ...

Democracy vs. Authoritarianism Democracies, like the U.S., operate on systems of checks and balances, where power is distributed among elected officials, independent courts, and a free press.

Democracy, he wrote, was just as vulnerable to vanity, pride, avarice and ambition as any other form of government, and a good deal less stable. “There never was a democracy yet that did not ...

At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is ...