Hélène Landemore of Yale University believes she has a radical proposal to make democracy work. In this week’s, Dr. David ...

Political science scholars examined worldwide democratic backsliding and emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions during a Wednesday event titled “Global Challenges & Responses to ...

Stanford Continuing Studies, a program that shares educational resources with adult students, hosted the sixth and final installment of its “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series on Nov. 11.

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

We need people willing to testify publicly, to challenge injustice face-to-face, to stand behind their words in public forums.

With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...