Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths ...

When I think of the fate of American democracy in 2050, I can’t help showing my roots as a historian, but at the same time I’m not able to look past the behemoth overshadowing our future as humans: ...

Democracy is about listening to people. To hear from Montanans, state Democrats this summer and fall are traveling across the state, holding well-publicized, public meetings to receive input directly ...

Jason Carter, grandson of President Jimmy Carter and Chair of the Carter Center Board of Trustees, at the 2024 in Chicago on August 20, 2024. Credit - Bill Clark—CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Democracies ...

Jan. 19—One in five of adults in Generation Z and Millennials indicate "dictatorship could be good in certain circumstances" The McCourtney Institute for Democracy's most recent Mood of the Nation ...

Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was abroad during a 1975 coup that killed her father, independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and wiped out most of her immediate ...

I am writing to comment on the election theme “Save Our Democracy – Vote.” What is “democracy”? Democracy is the right to vote as the means of expressing the will of a majority of voters and the ...

MSNBC Rachel Maddow on Tuesday said a healthy democracy means having a "disqualifying process" where people thought to be anti-democratic are removed from running for office after receiving a ...

Yet, “we, the people,” have allowed our role as popular sovereigns to be reduced to benchwarmers. Kevin Frazier will join the law school faculty at the University of South Dakota as a Visiting ...

DAKAR/SAN JOSÉ – Democracy is in trouble. For nine consecutive years, more countries have suffered a weakening of democratic institutions than have experienced improvement – the longest such decline ...

Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but, encouragingly, it seems that AIs rely on facts to ...

But democracy does not mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right, and they cannot decide what truth is. It does not mean that anyone can say anything, and democracy must be able to ...