Democracy isn’t collapsing from single blows. It is being chipped away—internally and externally. To survive, it requires ...

Politics / Books & the Arts / A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann ...

Camden bookstore hosts Pulitzer-funded viewing of award-winning docuseries that centers African Americans in the nation's ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

Democracy is deteriorating in much of the world and changes in the United States under President Donald Trump threaten to accelerate the decline, according to a pro-democracy institute that has the ...

With citizen initiated ballot measures getting harder and harder to do, we are losing the only tools we have to directly ...

Amid a swirl of high-stakes political standoffs from Sacramento to Washington, the future of U.S. politics and democracy has ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

In an interview with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said people dont fully grasp the phrase "democracy is at stake" and urged Democrats to focus more on kitchen table issues.