The threat to a true democracy that promotes material well-being, equality, and social solidarity is deeper than Donald Trump. It comes from a capitalism that can never make its peace with democracy.

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team. Unfortunately, global democracy is a field divided. And not primarily ...

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

At the Paris AI Action Summit, Allen argued that DOGE represents the real-time implementation of an extreme ideological ...

Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past 40 years have proved that democracy ...

“Our data is very good for tracking changes within countries over time.” In the United States, the liberal democracy score has been on a marked upward trend since 1900, the first year in the ...

One of the core threats to democracy over the past decade has been Trump’s willingness to go to great lengths to win or maintain the presidency — a danger that materialized after he lost the ...

Over its 248 years, the United States has developed a more inclusive system of governance. From Morris' perspective, this is because Americans have demanded something closer to pure democracy.

Trump’s victory is a grim day for the United States and for democracies around the world. You have every right to be appalled, saddened, shocked, and frightened.

Democracy is not an inevitability. It is a system that emerged in the West over two centuries of struggle, sacrifice and often bloody revolution, alongside the Enlightenment and the Industrial ...

“In this year of elections in liberal democracies, concerns over foreign influence have only grown, amplified by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s assertive foreign policy, and ...