Ms. Stewart has reported on the religious right for more than 15 years. Her most recent book is “Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.” They told us they would smash ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of ...

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Two weeks ago, I wrote a Forbes article titled, “Greenland Has Spoken: What Trump Doesn’t Get About Danish Leaders”, arguing that the U.S. President and his team are unlikely to win the Greenlanders ...

Since The Atlantic first released the podcast Autocracy in America last fall, Donald Trump was elected president again. Staff writer Anne Applebaum describes how Trump’s return to the White House fits ...

Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Raina Raskin Mr. Douthat is a Times Opinion columnist and the host of the “Interesting ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of ...

A close friend who works at a nearby college asked me why, in 2025, there haven’t been student protests of the kind that we saw during the Vietnam War and after the killing of George Floyd. She ...

LAGOS – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted the practice of democracy in Africa, saying that what is obtainable is representative democracy where a few people will grab the common wealth.

They told us they would smash the institutions that safeguard our democracy. And that is exactly what they are doing. Many Americans chose not to believe what they were saying. Will we now believe ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of ...