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 ...

A report estimates there were more global autocracies than democracies in 2024. Its lead author is worried about the way the American winds are blowing under Donald Trump.

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

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

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

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

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

In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...

Following autocracy's fall, debates on the constitution, elections, & democracy intensify, echoing Abul Mansur Ahmad's ...

Their work reminds us that the press has long been a powerful actor in struggles for democracy. For instance, in the fall of 1919 a rumor spread through the white community of Elaine, Ark.: ...