If there only were two sides to the question, “What will end an authoritarian government?” the answer would be simple. Eight billion people with competing ideas, sometimes completely contradictory, ...

Editor’s note: A Democracy’s Primer is a collaboration between the journalism and legal communities to aid the public’s understanding of how government works with citizen engagement. Volunteers for ...

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A new report shows Australians don’t want to be reduced to merely voters. They want a democracy that listens, including ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

Trump is illegally sending brown people to prison in foreign countries under terrible conditions at the same time welcoming white South Africans who created apartheid to the United States. MAGA is ...

Penn students will conduct after school sessions twice a week to discuss democracy, branches of government, the Constitution, and what being a good citizen looks like. Credit: Julio Sosa A new club at ...

In this country, as in so many others, sports metaphors can explain just about anything. They even work in the most complex and serious cases we face as a society, like the “cementazo” that has ...

Several months ago, the most right-wing government in Israel’s history took power. Led by Benjamin Netanyahu, the coalition has put forward legislation that severely limits the powers of the judiciary ...

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales will speak about judicial philosophy and the judicial ...

Sabeel Rahman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. In addition to his academic work, he has worked as a consultant and advisor for a ...