About half of Americans say democracy is performing poorly, according to a survey. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey found that 51 percent of respondents ...

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday that people around the world have "questions about our democracy" following the attempted assassination of former President Trump over the weekend ...

'Pod Save America' hosts Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor join WIRED to answer your burning questions about American democracy and elections. Does the United States have honest elections? Could we have a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Democracy in the United States is declining faster than in any other modern democracy, according to a major new global ...

Danielle Allen is a political philosopher and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard University. She is also the author of Democracy, Refreshed, a 10-week newsletter series on ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

”The continued slide into authoritarianism is made possible by the twin assaults on our democracy and the pursuit of racial justice. In this time of crisis, we need elected officials who stand up ...

Former president Goodluck Jonathan queries why democracy fails to deliver growth in Africa, citing economic success in non-democratic nations and urging reforms.

When exploring the benefits and limitations of representative democracy through art, what better way could there be to do so than by having the audience of said art engage in that kind of democracy ...

Washington Post op–ed writer Theodore R. Johnson discusses his new book —- "If We Are Brave, Essay from Black Americana" — an examination of democracy, race and Black voters in the United States.