'If You Can Keep It': Democracy In 2026

After a year of new leadership, court fights, dramatic change to the federal government, and deep political division, where ...
Study Finds on MSNOpinion

Your bank account shapes your democratic values better than your political identity

Study Suggests That When Rent Is Due and Healthcare Bills Pile Up, Democratic Principles Take a Back Seat In A Nutshell This ...
The EconomistOpinion

Political parties are a feature, not a bug, of American democracy, writes H.W. Brands

After a shaky start, this function came to be fulfilled by political parties. Nowadays, parties are largely viewed as tribal, ...
PBS

Where Did Democracy Come From, and Does It Still Work?

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...
USA Today

These people still believe in democracy (little d) and are working to keep it.

WASHINGTON ‒ For Joseph Atou, democracy is sharing with hundreds of visitors the history of America’s foundation. For Gregg Amore, it’s teaching the younger generation the importance of civic ...

There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit ...
Pew Research Center

Can Americans be optimistic about their democracy?

Sept. 15 is the United Nations’ International Day of Democracy, an annual moment to assess the health of democracy around the world. Unfortunately, as numerous studies have demonstrated, democracy has ...
Hosted on MSN

The U.S. Isn’t A Democracy. Can It Still Become One?

During the 2024 campaign, voters were repeatedly told that democracy in America was under threat. Polls show that voters believed that — albeit for different reasons based on their political ...
Colorado PoliticsOpinion

Democracy is under attack, right here in Colorado | Jon Caldara

Remember during COVID, when the people screaming the loudest for government-mandated jabs were the very same people chanting ...
Psychology Today

Why Truth Matters for Democracy

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...
Artnet

What Does Democracy Look Like? How Political Trauma Can Be Turned Into Artistic Action

With a record number of countries holding elections in 2024—including the U.S., where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are battling it out for the White House this week—the future of democracy feels ...
RealClearPolitics

Bill Clinton: "Democracy Is About More Than Real Elections And Majority Rule"

Former President Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday at the "World Forum 2025 on the Future of Democracy, Tech and Humankind" in Berlin: BILL CLINTON: I think a lot of this problem we’re facing today is not ...