The New Republic

Democracy Is in Peril, Just Not the Way We Thought

Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

Funding Democracy Unfiltered, CSPAN Taps First Chief Development Officer

A 15-year nonprofit vet, Adele Hixon-Day joins from the Smithsonian and will be vital to C-SPAN's continuing coverage of ...

Alaska Can Help Save Democracy By Eliminating Ranked-Choice Voting

Steve Forbes explains why ranked-choice voting completely perverts the democratic process and urges Alaska’s voters to end it ...
CounterPunchOpinion

Direct Democracy Means Sustained Disruption of Anti-Public Interests

The defining feature of Western representative democracy today is that the individuals we elect don’t represent anything ...
YES! Magazine

Can We Fix Our Democracy?

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 ...
Forbes

AI, Democracy And The Politics Of The Kitchen Table

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Senator Bernie Sanders during a panel discussion on AI in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, ...

Latin America’s democracy will also be built by its engineers

Ahead of the November 2025 presidential vote, journalists documented a coordinated disinformation campaign against the two ...
The New York Times

Youth Leaders Make Democracy Their Focus

Six young people from around the world who attended the Athens Democracy Forum spoke about what drives them and the challenges they face. By Shivani Vora Young people from around the world who ...

The People of the Twin Cities, Hong Kong Political Prisoner and Free Speech Advocate Jimmy Lai Win the 2026 Kettering Democracy Prize

The Charles F. Kettering Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2026 Kettering Democracy Prize: the people of the Twin Cities and Hong Kong political prisoner and free speech advocate Jimmy ...
Ghana News Agency on MSN

Vice President Opoku-Agyemang receives Democracy Cup

By Iddi Yire, GNA Accra, Aug 28, GNA – Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang on Friday received the Democracy ...
The New Yorker

You Rule

Cicero, the Roman orator and politician of the first century B.C.E., spoke up over and over again—while stamping his feet for effect in between sentences, if his own testimony is to be believed—for ...