Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The Trump administration has enabled a small network of high-tech oligarchs to determine a vast ...

Modern democracies are broken, but there is a way to fix them, according to Hélène Landemore. “I have good news and bad news,” Landemore said. “Bad news is electoral politics, it seems to me, is ...

Every policy pronouncement from Washington or your state capital carries an implicit promise: Government can deliver what it pledges. Yet when systems collapse under their own complexity — requiring ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections,” Adam Przeworski, a political scientist ...

Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education, CHRICED, has lamented that the country is evolving into a one-party system. In a statement by Ibrahim M.

Adam Kinzinger spoke about the importance of democracy during an address last week. Kinzinger said that young Americans weren't wedded to old political norms. "They're not buying into the ...

Wade Maki, chair of the UNC Faculty Assembly, speaks during a meeting of the UNC System Board of Governors on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown kmckeown@newsobserver.com When ...

Stearns is the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He is the author of PARLIAMENTARY AMERICA: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing ...

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental ...