Democracy is backsliding. Valery Perry joins us to discuss threats abroad—and here at home. With one in three global elections contested and turnout falling, democracy is in retreat. Valery Perry, ...

The partisan fight to draw maps that determine how Americans are represented has entered a dangerous spiral. Texas is racing ahead with a mid-decade congressional redraw designed to lock in additional ...

Judge Colleen McMahon followed other judges by taking a stand on behalf of freedom and democracy. On July 25, the U.S. District judge for the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary ...

Mr. Dionne is a contributing Opinion writer. Politics are often distorted by arguments rooted in false choices. It’s hard to find a better example than the one Democrats keep wrestling with: Should ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi details how Donald Trump’s attempts to squash protest and dissent by deploying the military to Los Angeles – along with things like the handcuffing of a U.S. senator - are ...

A new Quinnipiac poll released this week found that more than half of Americans think that democracy isn’t working in the U.S., but “The View” host Alyssa Farah Griffin isn’t sure that’s true.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Governor Wes Moore have been outspoken in their denunciations of President Donald Trump, frequently citing him as a threat to democracy. Yet while they rail against ...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder told "Meet the Press" why it is a threat to democracy when Republicans gerrymander, but saving Democracy when Democrats respond with gerrymandering. John Roberts ...

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...

I write to express my great appreciation for Sunday morning’s front-page article on the ICE raid—the “Big Eddie” story. It is so important that the human damage and destruction from these raids and ...

University of Salford provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The proposed reorganisation of council boundaries was probably not the issue which prompted British voters to elect ...