We have allowed the American ruling class to abstract themselves almost entirely from their substantive political positions ...

We may agree that democracy is in crisis, but there’s no consensus on what that means. A new report from World in 2050 relies ...

Image In a convention speech on Tuesday, former President Barack Obama said: “Democracy isn’t just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty laws. It’s the values we live by, and the way we ...

Our home-grown election system is the envy of the Western world. Will it be enough to inoculate us from AI, fake news and ...

July 8, 2024 • While Democracy Works is on summer break, we bring you an episode from our friends at Making Peace Visible, a podcast that ignites powerful conversations all over the world about ...

The report published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) said that global voter turnout between 2008 and 2023 plunged by 10 percentage points, going from ...

Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson urged people to "reimagine" freedom and democracy beyond the Founders' "little piece of paper" at the Democratic National Convention (DNC ...

Few journalists and pundits show much interest in responding; those who warn that democracy is dying get limited media coverage or are forcibly silenced. Image courtesy of Gerd Altmann/Pixabay As ...

"Democracy isn’t just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty laws ... Harris and Walz are projecting an image of a country where we all get to do our own thing, and people chill out, accepting ...

Many Democratic political types today believe that “democracy” is a message that’s both tired and abstract, something that preoccupies elites but not the key voting demographics. They cite d ...

Lehigh Valley Democrats gathered at the U.S. Steelworkers of America’s union hall in Bethlehem on Monday evening for what they called a Rally for Democracy ... through the photos below for ...

The Party accurately accuses Trump of being an existential threat to our “democracy,” but it is too. In a competitive democracy Americans would have equal access to diverse political ...