A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

Meet the man who has been advocating to replace American democracy with an all-powerful monarchy — and who has the ear of ...

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

Historian Timothy Snyder reminds us that the fight for democracy has always begun with ordinary Americans—through civil ...

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 ...

This has been seen from Augustus down to our own day. —Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856) Democracy in America: what is it? Whatever it is, we know that it is under siege.

The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently ...

We began with the first words of Tocqueville’s 1835 volume of Democracy in America: “Of all the novel things which attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, none struck me ...

Democracy. Free and fair elections. Trump has succeeded enough to know that his toxic model of politics works on a sizable chunk of the American electorate. In his second term, expect Trump to ...

Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of ...

David French: 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 ...

You say that the Black electoral monolith only exists as evidence of a critical defect in America's practice of democracy. And you say that that defect is the space our two-party system makes for ...