Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States was born not just as a nation, but as an idea. It was the first country truly born of ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

Speaking about “limits on limiting” democracy shifts the focus to the desired leeway or margin for democratic decision-making, i.e. the scope for its agency. While democracy, again in Plato’s words, ...

The demise of one of Hong Kong's last major pro-democracy parties, the League of Social Democrats, is the latest blow to the ...

As the countdown begins to the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, what principles can unite these United States?

A big majority guarantees a party will stay in office but nothing else. The Conservatives had a big enough majority after ...

Opposition members stormed out of a Leicester City Council meeting last night amid claims residents were being “silenced”.

The Declaration of Independence has some notes about “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish” its existing government ...

There are consequences to fetishizing one’s own intellectual superiority and thereby making the Sorkin American Dream our own ...

The “end of history” referred to the end of humanity’s ideological evolution, rather than the immediate termination of all conflict.

Sporting his supposedly tough guy, new hairstyle (which should henceforth be known as a Palo Alto mullet) and a ghetto-gold ...