Texas A&M University Professor Dr. Kirby Goidel reflects on the "march of democracy" as America's 247th birthday nears. A professor of political science in the Bush School of Government and Public ...

Winston Churchill famously said, "Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all those other forms that have been tried." However, that presumes people agree on what the term actually means.

Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

Friends, I am committed to updating you here every other week with my reflections on philanthropy, civil society, and democracy in America. Alas, a sprawling and recalcitrant draft has conspired ...

Often when politicians take actions to undermine democracy, they loudly proclaim that their actions are necessary to “save democracy.” It reminds me of the Vietnam-era line about destroying a village ...

After President Biden's democracy summit, what does it mean when countries say they are a democracy? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Seema Shah, co-author of the Global State of Democracy report. Two big ...

Many people know the feeling: the world seems unstable, decisions feel distant, and other groups appear to threaten what matters most. News about war, economic insecurity, climate change, migration ...

As the second anniversary of the January 6th riots approaches and the House select committee investigation has ended, we are closer to the beginning of the aftermath than the end. That’s because the ...

On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff speaks to Vice President Kamala Harris about the state of American democracy, the Democrats' agenda and the ...