Relatively few Americans overall see the nation’s democracy as a good example for other countries to follow. But adults ages 50 and older are more likely than those under 50 to hold this view. Younger ...

Revisiting the way flag bearers are selected would be a powerful step in that direction. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans When the winds of change swept through Uganda’s political ...

Moreover, “democracy is not randomly assigned,” he says. “So all the things that cause a country to become democratic or authoritarian could also affect the outcomes that we want to explain.” In other ...

Ruled by elected leaders for hundreds of years, the U.S. seems like it ought to be the paradigmatic example of a consolidated democracy. So how, after all that time, ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His ...

Join Preserving Democracy as we dig into the ten habits of good citizens in a new digital series, A Citizen’s Guide to Preserving Democracy. Explore real-life examples of Americans who are ...

For example, Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest individual, contributed $277 million to Donald Trump’s campaign and the races of other Republican candidates.

The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...

Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health and health disparities. Stakeholders who are focused on public policy ...

If you hang around with MAGA people, don’t say the D word. Democracy. They hate it when you do that. The latest example was earlier this week, when we ran a column on our website from our sister ...