Americans who care about democracy have every right to feel appalled and frightened. But then they have work to do.

WASHINGTON: While inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year's presidential race, another issue ...

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In a year filled with elections, the state of democracy is thriving by many measures. But there are dark clouds on the ...

On June 10, 2000, London opened the Millennium Footbridge, a futuristic pedestrian path spanning the River Thames, hanging ...

That could weaken the government’s power to enforce statutes and rules by draining parts of the workforce and permit his ...

Some have argued that this variation and decentralization could, in the event of another contested result, pose a danger to ...

Yet, I also have faith that our system of government will survive. That’s not the rhetoric we’ve heard from the candidates and their campaigns, however. Both Trump and Harris have leaned in to calling ...

President-elect Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/The Associated ...

As Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued, democracy is at its most vulnerable when inequality in a society has become entrenched and ...

In the work that won the Nobel, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson—three highly respected economists almost universally referred ...

Rachel Maddow speaks to Americans who do not want to surrender democracy to Donald Trump's authoritarian management and ...