SIMON: What do you think - what do you see happening in the United States today? APPLEBAUM: So I want to make it clear that the United States is not an authoritarian state right now. But what we see ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

“The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

About the author: William Priest is vice chair of TD Wealth and founder of Epoch Investment Partners. He co-authored Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order with David Roche and Alex ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

I first read Plato as an undergraduate. Later, I studied his work in depth during my Ph.D. coursework. Plato viewed democracy as a form of tyranny. He argued that democracy gives power to people who ...

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 ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

When Democratic legislators in Texas returned to work on Monday after going AWOL for a couple of weeks, a small group of supporters at the chamber shouted, “This is what democracy looks like.” One ...