Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

A grassroots network of informal civic hubs known as “Slovak Cafés” is taking shape across Europe, driven by concern over recent political developments in Slovakia. Inspired by an earlier initiative ...

Features Saving Democracy—Realistically Yes, we disdain the Electoral College. In the meantime, there are more realistic ways to unlock our democratic Gordian Knot. By Larry Diamond from Summer 2022, ...

The 'Excessive Wealth' Conference hears from a millionaire heir about how global corporations exploit consumers and undermine democracy ...

The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...

In his recent piece, "Of Reactionaries, Clerics and Protests," Dr. Nerses Kopalyan casts the growing unrest in Armenia as a ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in ...

Whether or not the United States has stuck to its principles consistently in our foreign relations is no reason to abandon ...

Today, the United States itself is at risk of being turned into a military dictatorship. Its liberal-democratic institutions ...

We are well past the time when questions about corporate money in politics should be answered by Congress with a resounding “no.” We can have a democracy or we can have an oligarchy.

The United Nations has again blacklisted Israel for committing grave violations against Palestinian children. The U.N. report also says violence against children in war zones reached unprecedented ...

Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re going to turn right now to ranked-choice voting.