While some who have lived their entire lives under democracy seem willing to forsake it, many who have experienced life under autocracy want out ...
July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...
Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the ...
Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...
Only about a third of Americans are happy with the way democracy is working, according to a Gallup poll earlier this year. The first man, who wished to remain anonymous because of his job, is a local ...
The citizens of the U.S. are in a cold civil war. There are the people who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution that has lasted 250 years and those who believe in wielding power without ...
There’s snow in the mountains, kids are playing in the streets and gardens are coming to life across Alaska. But beneath that surface of normalcy, something profound and troubling is happening in our ...
SIMON: What do you think - what do you see happening in the United States today? APPLEBAUM: So I want to make it clear that the United States is not an authoritarian state right now. But what we see ...
On many levels, the re-election of Donald Trump looks like an aberration, a singular event that stands outside the expected flow of history. After all, America has never elected a convicted felon as ...
Is the U.S. still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there.
This guest essay reflects the views of Frances Cerra Whittelsey and members of all the Leagues of Women Voters on Long Island. No matter how you voted in 2024, we all need to recognize that the very ...
Democrats warned that the 2024 election presented a choice between democracy and autocracy, competence and incompetence, and a government that works for all the people and one that would be dismantled ...
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