The vast majority of Americans believe democracy, despite its problems, is the best system of government. But polling shows that far fewer younger voters agree. The nationwide poll conducted in ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

An American Democracy Built for the People: Why Democracy Matters and How To Make It Work for the 21st Century Although democracy is failing to meet the needs of many Americans, it is far preferable ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

LSA sophomore Justine Barnard speaks at the Dinner for Democracy: Judicial System and Racial Justice event at Weill Hall Tuesday evening. Josh Sinha/Daily. Buy this photo. About 20 people gathered in ...

Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.

On July 21, President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal of his reelection bid. Minutes later, he announced his full endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite worries about the substitution ...

Amid a tense and polarized election cycle, conversations about higher education’s role in democracy have been bubbling, spurring a renewed focus on civic engagement and constructive discourse. But a ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

To those of us who have taken liberal democratic values for granted like air, President Lee Jae-myung’s unfamiliar constitutional perception came as a sudden and disconcerting shock. At last week’s ...