One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian impulses.

If you have your own encouraging examples of what democracy in America looks like, I would love to hear them. You can write ...

Senior officials would call for reviews, pledge transparency, and promise answers. Now they double down, declare the killings justified before investigations begin, sometimes before the bodies are ...

In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and ...

Donald Trump’s shock and awe campaign against American democracy is now in its eighth month. So much is happening, and so quickly, that even seasoned political experts are struggling to keep up.

The coming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence could be a bittersweet celebration. Ideally, the world’s oldest democracy should be celebrated as a triumph of principles, ideals and ...

In a recent editorial, John Hall suggests that religion is an obstacle to American democracy — a relic of “magical thinking” that breeds conflict, division, and impedes progress, driven by modern ...

Next year, the United States will observe the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. To begin a year of celebration, Donald Trump appeared at the Iowa State Fairground in early July.

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...

Anonymity is a tool for skirting accountability from the public ...

The public overwhelmingly opposes the genocide, but the political elites help keep it going. Something has to give. Members of Jewish Voice for Peace are led away after being arrested for occupying ...