Advocates invert its meaning to claim any loss for their side is ‘undemocratic.’ ...

Chaos in American democracy More than two centuries ago, the founding fathers of the US designed a democratic system based on the separation of powers, to ensure checks and balances that would ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy ...

Those who like to call America a republic often pretend that we are such because we’re not a “direct democracy” (aka a “pure ...

The late 19 th century also saw the backsliding of American democracy across the South. After the Civil War and the passage of the 13 th and 14 th Amendments, people of color in the South began to ...

“The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated discussion going on all over America,” a contributor to the New York Times wrote in 1937. “In the Legislatures, over the ...

(AP Photo) Recent political events have sparked renewed discussion around American democracy and what it means to be an “American.” The mainstream media and academia have been studying every move of ...

And America’s republican form of democracy has always wrestled with the same tension that Aristotle faced: How do we share power and wealth? More economic inequality weakens social trust and ...

One of the most favorable results is in the latest Fox News poll where Biden is preferred over Trump by a modest 6 points on “the future of American democracy.” Even here, Trump gets the nod ...

I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about American democracy and the role Christianity plays in our political systems. As a lifelong evangelical and political conservative, I was alarmed ...

the concepts of “American Dream” and “America First” quickly became intertwined with race, capitalism, democracy, and with each other. Through extensive research, Churchwell traces the ...