The brutal severing has left us glaring at one another across a cultural divide that threatens to swallow the democracy whole. There are swastikas on the playground. Racial slurs on school walls.

We ask our alumni, elected officials and fellow Rhode Islanders to stand with us in defense of academic freedom ‒ because the future of higher education, and democracy itself, depends on it.

To my mind, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with the sole aim of wiping its democracy off the map and absorbing ...

In 1814, many years after his presidency, John Adams, the second president of the United States, gave a strong warning about democracy. He ...

Two international surveys suggest non-Americans understand Trump better than Americans do.

The institutional framework is still there. But they are no longer democracies because the political culture on which democracy depends has failed. Now the United States is in danger of being ...

A survey of more than 500 political scientists found that they believe the United States is headed towards authoritarian rule ...

The Lincoln County Democratic Party Action Committee hosted a protest at the 20th Century Veterans Memorial Saturday as part ...

As federal lawmakers consider limits, state leaders are focusing on how artificial intelligence can strengthen democracy, ...

The institutional framework is still there. But they are no longer democracies because the political culture on which democracy depends has failed. Now the United States is in danger of being ...

Millions of people watched Gov. Gavin Newsom's address denouncing President Trump and his military presence, and hundreds of ...