A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful ...

If you hang around with MAGA people, don’t say the D word. Democracy. They hate it when you do that. The latest example was earlier this week, when we ran a column on our website from our sister ...

U.S. is a republic, not a democracy President Obama referred to our nation as a “democracy” several times during his Democratic National Convention speech. I guess he wasn’t taught in ...

I am a retired Navy deep-sea diver who served for 21 years. With all the letters pouring in about “saving our democracy,” I guess it is time again to remind people that we do not live in a ...

No one really knows where the whole “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” chestnut began. The earliest example I could find was in an article on Medium.com, quoting a 1955 pro ...

No one really knows where the whole “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” chestnut began. The earliest example I could find was in an article on Medium.com, quoting a 1955 pro ...

No one really knows where the whole “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” chestnut began. The earliest example I could find was in an article on Medium.com, quoting a 1955 pro ...

The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference? If you hang around with MAGA people, don’t say the D word. Democracy. They hate it when you do that.