After a year of new leadership, court fights, dramatic change to the federal government, and deep political division, where ...

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit ...

There has been much talk of late about the institution of American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. This discussion has focused largely on the formal legal basis for democratic institutions ...

Recently, many friends have been struggling to make sense of attacks on our democracy, feeling bewilderment, frustration and other complex, confusing and frequently contradictory emotions. Yet ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

I have noted an uptick in various persons reminding me (and you) that the United States is not a democracy. I've heard it from political panels on TV, during interviews with politicians, and most ...

Six months before she died, in October 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published a memorable essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Coming Democratic Revival.” Amid rising pessimism ...

I return to Europe from the US with a clear conclusion: American democrats (lowercase d) have 400 days to start saving US democracy. If next autumn’s midterm elections produce a Congress that begins ...

The attack on Venezuela on January 3 leaves no room for doubt: The US no longer behaves as the peaceful democracy it ...