I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the ...

Democrats are anything but democratic. In the past, their idea of governance was overreach and abuse of power carried through unelected bureaucrats, intimidation attempts by radicalized mobs disguised ...

One of Donald Trump’s most consistent election messages is that Joe Biden, not he, is the threat to democracy. The New York Times has an excellent story explaining how this message, which Trump ...

Mainstream parties could have responded in one of two ways to the populist wave that began to sweep through developed nations on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-2010s. They could either offer ...

The recent government shutdown is just the latest reminder of dysfunction in American politics — stalemate, leaders unwilling to compromise and citizens left to pay the price. But beyond gridlock lies ...

America is at a crossroads, teetering on the brink of an anti-democratic abyss. But here’s the crucial truth: Democrats can still win. The presidency is not lost. Victory is within our grasp, if we ...

Consider the date June 4, 1989. In Poland, they held partially free elections. Street protests followed calling for free speech, due process and democracy. Well, those protests spread and eventually ...

It should be easy to defend constitutional democracy against a would-be authoritarian leader — shouldn’t it? After all, people everywhere should rally to defend democracy if they understand that they ...

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In the end, the argument garnered zero votes at the Supreme Court. Even Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't debase themselves by going along with such a half-baked, ...

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