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

Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone ...

You can be sure that whatever comes next from the people trying to convince you our nation is not a democracy, it won't be ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of ...

On the Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Polarization is eroding trust in science, universities and experts. What does that mean for the future of democracy? Roger Pielke Jr. a ...

Human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights. Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran on Jan. 16, 2024. Human ...

Nestled in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the slash-and-burn playbook for the federal government that the Trump administration is following while saying it isn’t, is a call for American ...

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of ...

A resolution in support of democracy and the rights of both citizens and noncitizens in the United States, recently adopted ...

Governor Mike Braun calls for special legislative session on redistricting in Indiana, sparking debate and concerns over ...

As election day nears, school board candidates across the country are scrambling to wrap up their campaigns. They’re running from forums to luncheons and knocking on doors to garner votes. Each ...