In the first of three analyses, North Carolinians are united on the importance of certain rights and liberties, but the principle of citizenship significantly divides partisans SALISBURY — As the ...

Now that the Fourth of July has come and gone, Americans begin a year of celebration and reflection as we prepare for next year’s semiquincentennial — 250 years since our Founding Fathers courageously ...

This Fourth of July, America begins a year of celebration and reflection as we prepare for next year’s semiquincentennial — 250 years since our Founding Fathers courageously declared independence from ...

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.

The United States is on a downward trajectory when it comes to respect for civil rights, with an international monitoring group warning that democracy is under threat with the Trump administration’s ...

Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...

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 ...

For many of us, Independence Day is about raucous revelries and a vague-but-powerful sense of patriotism accompanied by fireworks, cookouts and an amount of beer some of us will regret when the sun ...

About three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat, according to a new poll from NPR, PBS News and Marist. A similar number also see politically motivated violence as a major ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van der ...