If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team. Unfortunately, global democracy is a field divided. And not primarily by ...

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful protestors ...

“Democracy is the worst form of government,” Churchill is said to have said, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Actually, what he excepted was “all those other forms that have been ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? For well over a decade, scholars and pundits have proclaimed that democracy ...

Al Gore at the 2000 Democratic Convention. (Franklin McMahon / Corbis / Getty Images) In the early years of the United States, almost no one called the country’s highly unusual experiment in popular ...

The By-invitation section publishes commentaries by outside thinkers from a wide range of perspectives. For a view calling for China to move towards a constitutional democracy, read a commentary by ...

An attack on democracy – that’s how leaders are describing the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. But democracy is a governing system that was never designed for everyone to participate. Michael ...

About half of U.S. adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only ...

A third of Turkish adults are satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country, while the other two-thirds express dissatisfaction. More than a third (37%) say they are not satisfied at ...

View post: Walmart is selling a $129 Keurig K-Duo coffee maker for $79 ahead of Cyber Monday Like many things, democracy fared poorly in 2020. Democracy has been on trial in the past, but across the ...

When you’re stuck in the wilderness, Bear Grylls wouldn’t suggest you prioritize searching for Wi-Fi. Instead, survival experts would likely tell you to focus on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In other ...