Historian Jon Meacham has said “Empathy is the oxygen of democracy.” Certainly that litmus test has never been truer than the ...

Journalist Zack Beauchamp's latest book, "The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World," explores what's happening to democracy throughout the world. The ...

Regardless of the elections’ outcome, Freedom House will continue to highlight urgent challenges to American democracy and their underlying causes. With the United States facing closely contested ...

The oligarchy predicament is so old that Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, offered significant insights into the nature of oligarchies in his classic work, "Politics." He categorized various ...

While most were laudatory and covered a variety of topics, one was particularly pointed: A man wanted to know what Musk would say to concerns from voters that Trump’s election could lead to democracy ...

Every election is a direct reminder of the power — and complexity — of democracy. This year’s is also an outlet for anxieties, across the political spectrum, about how democracy itself is faring.

Or sign-in if you have an account. The slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” is the sort of self-important verbiage expected of a 20 year-old man in university whispering to a woman cornered ...

Should he lose, he may very well face jail time. It has left voters facing a bleak choice over the country’s democracy — one that has never before been litigated in an American presidential ...