Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, but that isn't the subject here: The authors identify two principal roots of what they deem modern representative democracy. First is the presence ...

What Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford describe in “The Left’s War on the Rule of Law” (op-ed, May 17) illustrates how social justice is meant to operate: outside of our governance structures. Within ...

Exit polling suggests that about a third of those who cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election viewed American democracy ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...