The United States bills itself as the world's most important democracy, and rightly so. Our nation's commitment to the rule of law and respect for diversity is unparalleled in the world today. A ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

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President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

At first glance, the Capitol insurrection that took place on Jan. 6 and Rick Santorum’s blithe pronouncement on April 23 that “there was nothing here” prior to European conquest of the Americas appear ...

On June 10, 2018, Americans learned that the president of the United States was routinely ripping apart memos, letters, annotated newspaper clippings and other pieces of paper that crossed his desk.

Ever since Donald Trump announced his Presidential candidacy, in June of 2015, there has been considerable concern about whether his allergy to truth is endangering American democracy. Without a ...

Silvia Federici and Astra Taylor in What Is Democracy? (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

The last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once, Americans argued about it, and then they tried to fix it. “The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated ...

DEMOCRACY IS THE most widely accepted form of governance, yet its flaws have become increasingly apparent in recent years. Gridlocked legislatures, low trust in the press, and judiciaries challenged ...

Eighth-grade U.S. history and civics test scores dropped last year to their lowest levels ever recorded by the Department of Education. These are just the latest declines among subjects tested since ...