Democracies often have fewer murders per capita than other countries, but they are often also wealthier than countries with ...

To reinvest in the upcoming generation and to rebuild democracy, the lonely generation has to become the hobby generation.

Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the ...

Suppose that you’re walking down the street and you come to an intersection. There is a man standing there with his dog. You sidle up next to him and say, “Hey, nice dog!” Now suppose that the man ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

When the county is in turmoil and awash in frustration, suspicion and anger it may help to think about basic principles — to think about those ideas that have inspired ...

Freedom in America is at risk, with democracy and the press facing significant challenges. How do you measure freedom?

It’s about two colliding visions of society and two contradictory forms of democracy, emerging out of the global struggle between the public and the institutional elites. On Feb. 14, Vance ...

On a basic level, democracy is a system of government in which the decisions are made with public participation. There are different forms of democracy and nuances to how those systems — which ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...