Direct democracy raised the minimum wage, legalized marijuana and overturned an abortion ban. An August ballot measure could ...

In the United States, internal divisions, political dissatisfaction, and institutional dysfunction have become so severe over the past year that the country is backsliding “much faster” than “any ...

President Donald Trump’s supporters actively oppose democracy, according to a recent ethnographic study, and actively want to ...

The opening ceremony of the sprawling campus and eight-story museum in Chicago celebrates the country’s first Black president ...

A new NBC News poll shows that Americans remain committed to the nation’s founding ideals — but widely feel that schools are ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...

On laptop screens, televisions and social media feeds across the nation, images and words fueled by a fractured political landscape spout anger, frustration and resentment. Clashing ideologies burst ...

Sept. 15 is the United Nations’ International Day of Democracy, an annual moment to assess the health of democracy around the world. Unfortunately, as numerous studies have demonstrated, democracy has ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

With a record number of countries holding elections in 2024—including the U.S., where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are battling it out for the White House this week—the future of democracy feels ...

Africa’s greatest democratic threat may not be dictatorship, military intervention or constitutional crises. It may be the growing tendency of political parties to see national setbacks as political ...