Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

Letters: Readers respond to Daniel Trilling’s article asking if fascism is making a comeback ...

Editorial: Gerrymandering is a serious threat to voters’ faith in democracy. It’s time for Congress to take action.

Certainty is not what democracy is about. You don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines until you’re ready to be seen ...

Archaeologists can use the design of ancient temples, plazas, and cities to piece together the story of how a place was ...

The No Kings movement faces its toughest test in barely a week. Will students and workers walk out to protest Trumpism?

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

A system can remain formally democratic while exhibiting significant distortions in competition, accountability and the rule ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

Two former NASA astronauts announce Astronauts for America, a new organization of over 100 ex-astronauts working to protect ...

It’s not news that a man in Washington sits atop one of the three branches of government who interprets the Constitution as it suits him, disregards precedent and asserts he knows better than any ...