While both systems have their merits, democracy prioritises the power and accountability of leaders to the people, whereas ...

But it’s gone now. If 1787 marked the birth of our American democracy, 2025 marked the end of it. We no longer live in a democracy. We don’t even live in a monarchy. We live in a dictatorship.

A watchdog group asked the Pentagon inspector general to probe whether the Defense Dept. broke laws by accepting a $400 ...

This column is adapted from Gov. Newsom’s "Democracy at a Crossroads" address on June 10. Democrat Gavin Newsom is governor of California.

Democracy, he argued, is not representative government, where the people select appointees to make decisions for them. That's Roman nonsense. Democracy is a daily exercise.

I'm just back from Mongolia, a competitive democracy in between Russia on one hand and China on the other. We had a big celebration of 10 years of deliberative polling.

SACRAMENTO — An overwhelming number of California voters think American democracy is being threatened or, at the very least, tested, according to a new poll released Thursday by the UC Berkeley ...

Why Democracy Is in Retreat Advocates invert its meaning to claim any loss for their side is ‘undemocratic.’ By Walter Russell Mead Follow ...

The MAGA right has largely rejected democracy and criticizes famed legal expert Erwin Chemerinsky’s perspective with the constitutional debate in the U.S.

A voter leaves the polling booth after casting her ballot in state assembly elections in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 20, 2024. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images) Public dissatisfaction with ...

The authors are political scientists who study how democracies come to an end. How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be ...