The head of Europe's oldest intergovernmental organization has warned that the West is caught in the throes of a series of ...

In a post yesterday, Ned Foley took issue with the essay from Randy Barnett posted yesterday at NYU’s Democracy Project. Here’s an excerpt from Randy’s piece, so readers can understand the context of ...

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the country has a few attributes that make it more resilient than you might think.

America is deeply divided politically, and the signs are everywhere. A recentQuinnipiac University Poll found that 53% of Americans believe democracy is not currently working, while 41% […] ...

Blind optimism is not helpful for those Americans who want to save American democracy. But nor is it the case that democracy ...

Democrats and Republicans agree gerrymandering threatens representative democracy. Nevertheless, both parties have done it ...

In an interview with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said people dont fully grasp the phrase ...

"The View" host Alyssa Farah Griffin argues that voters don't fully care about democracy because it's "too nebulous" a term ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that President Trump posting online that he ...

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...

I was working in El Salvador when President Nayib Bukele declared a state of exception. In 2022, after a sudden spike in homicides, he suspended due process and sent soldiers into neighborhoods.

Contemporary democracies rarely collapse in a single moment. They erode gradually, often through technically legal means.