Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

There is wide agreement that the most important essay ever written about American democracy is Madison’s “Federalist No. 10.” Madison was not an especially successful president, and, as a ...

Ashby is making history. The Ashby Free Public Library has been selected as the only Central Massachusetts stop for the ...

Is American democracy going to be OK? You hear this question asked regularly around the country these days. There is a national and worldwide narrative that American democracy is in persistent ...

With America’s democracy at stake, Biden stands on the right side of history by Austin Sarat, opinion contributor - 10/04/23 2:00 PM ET ...

How can democracy survive when we can’t even agree on a basic A person can now, for the first time in our history, reasonably live inside a bubble of manufactured facts depending on one’s ...

Politics Why Truth Matters for Democracy When facts fail, democracy falters. Posted March 10, 2025 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D.

“Since 2019, we’ve had a majority of people in the United States, at least, saying they are dissatisfied with democracy,” Gordon said. Gordon, former national security advisor to the vice president, ...

Now that Trump secured over 70 million votes on Nov. 5, 2024, you can say with certainty that millions of Americans who know that Trump is a threat to democracy and constitutional governance still ...

In a survey of voters in five battleground states conducted by the research firm Citizen Data for the advocacy group Protect Democracy, a third who cast ballots for a mix of Democrats and ...

Throughout history, democracies from Athens to Rome to Geneva were ethnically homogeneous and relatively small. The great experiment of Mounk’s title is whether a modern heterogeneous democracy ...