It seems strange to imagine a United States where democracy is no longer its rallying cry—a United States where protests ...

The school board was the testing ground for the current fall of democracy. And we cannot pretend we did not see it coming. As we watch federal employees targeted and placed on DEI watch lists ...

Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' ...

One research institution says not only is the answer to that question “yes,” but that the decline has been happening for years – and the so-called democratic recession is deepening.The world in 2024 ...

In a January 2024 Gallup poll, only 28 percent of Americans (a record low) said they were satisfied with "the way US democracy is working." American democracy has long promised four things ...

Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a ...

Attacks on the judiciary, the press and universities are all part of a concerted attempt to stifle dissent in America.

At the end of the 1920s, the “Rural People’s Movement” demonstrated against social decline. Their anger and bitterness was ...

Government meetings frequently push three, four hours or longer. Some say this discourages participation. Or is it just ...