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 ...

At a forum in Athens, leaders discussed challenges to democracy that they said stemmed from both internal and external forces. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from Athens This article is from a special ...

EPA Seeks to Revoke “Endangerment Finding” to Further Gut Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emission “Hard to Breathe”: Mother-and-Daughter Activists from Cancer Alley Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment “Plan ...

Open the Floodgates: SCOTUS Says South Carolina Can Defund Planned Parenthood. Will Other States Follow? Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero’s Family on 100+ Days of ...

ATHENS, Ala. — A new chapter in education began in Athens this week as Julian Newman Elementary School officially opened its ...

Welcome to the Week 6 grades! It was definitely a painful week to be an NFL quarterback. There were seven quarterbacks around the league who were sacked at least four times in Week 6. Those seven ...

In a one-on-one with Democracy Docket's Marc Elias, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warns against Donald Trump's blatant threat to democracy, as he now gets to unilaterally decide government spending.

WASHINGTON — It's a display on the National Mall designed to be temporary ... and chilling. A 3,000-pound ice sculpture of the word "DEMOCRACY" was placed on the mall Wednesday morning with the U.S.

ATHENS – An village man was charged Tuesday in connection with possessing child sexual abuse material, according to New York State Police. Timothy M. Scott, 68, was arrested and charged with promoting ...

Politico reports the Trump administration is considering options to privatize some $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt. Officials with the Education Department and Treasury Department have ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - The Stars and Stripes National Museum and Library will host the 6th Annual Spirit of Democracy Banquet in November. The banquet will be on Saturday, November 1 at the ...

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado serves as a powerful symbol of hope for those fighting for democracy at a time when many countries in Latin America ...