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

The coming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence could be a bittersweet celebration. Ideally, the world’s ...

American democracy is not a true democracy, but rather an oligarchic republic stabilized by elections, managed dissent, and a ...

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Marking the fifth anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) delivered an emotional ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His appetite ...

Rather than repealing civil rights statutes outright, the Trump administration has disabled the mechanisms that make those ...

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit of self-flattery. The truth is that as a country, we have often found one ...

If you want to understand the health of American democracy, what happens in state legislatures matters just as much as what happens in Washington, D.C., and Mar-a-Lago. In 2025, we can assess the ...

Deployment of federal troops on American soil? Necessary to secure the homeland from people the president has determined are ...

One of the grandest achievements of America’s Founding Fathers was the establishment of a political regime dedicated to the securing the rights granted to all human beings by both nature and God, ...