Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

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 ...

The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

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 ...

Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

“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 ...

Many South Africans feel politically homeless, reducing democracy to a mere voting menu. Democracy must be actively pursued ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...