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 ...

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

In a way, Donald Trump has taught us a valuable lesson. His assault on American democracy has shown how fragile and precious democratic institutions are. His contempt for our system of alliances ...

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 ...