I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

SACRAMENTO — An overwhelming number of California voters think American democracy is being threatened or, at the very least, tested, according to a new poll released Thursday by the UC Berkeley ...

To kick off his Democracy Day breakout session Youth and Democratic Erosion, SNF Agora Fellow Scott Warren asked a small group of first-year students how they feel about the current state of democracy ...

Model homes sit vacant in the center of a 750-home housing development where construction was halted November 20, 2008 in Rio Vista, California. Land and property ownership have colored American ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Three new reports give some surprising reasons for optimism.

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

I was born into Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo world in 1935. In 1953, I defected from Walter Ulbricht’s Stasi world to the West. Now I and my fellow Americans live under Donald Trump’s ICE enforcers. At the ...