Peaceful mechanisms for defending democracy exist, but they are limited and not so difficult to overcome; it is worth taking ...

One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian ...

At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and ...

Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. The Berlin Wall opening in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 1989. Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. In 1989, the Berlin Wall ...

When Donald Trump won reelection in November 2024, much of the American establishment responded with a shrug. After all, Trump had been democratically elected, even winning the popular vote. And ...

As you further discuss the current challenges facing our country, you resort to propaganda by saying that we must fight to save our democracy from President Trump, Steven Miller and Vice President J.

The bulwarks of self-government have given way under multiple MAGA putsches. Instead of pledging to protect our democracy, Democrats need a plan to restore it Protesters carry a coffin symbolizing the ...

President George W. Bush delivers a speech at the National Endowment for Democracy in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2005. The U.S. has long used the promotion of democracy ...

While, as Benjamin Franklin quipped, it may be that nothing is certain but death and taxes, only the former can be considered the great equalizer. Death comes for us all, regardless of our social or ...

I have noted an uptick in various persons reminding me (and you) that the United States is not a democracy. I've heard it from political panels on TV, during interviews with politicians, and most ...

More than a decade before American troops fought their way ashore in Normandy and Okinawa, the U.S. military noted that “the success of a modern fighting force is directly and immediately dependent on ...

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...