Here’s how “the whole collective self-government thing goes down the tube,” according to two historians who have studied the ...

A national survey finds Americans strongly concerned about democratic rights, divided over national pride and the country's ...

A large majority of Democrats (86%) are dissatisfied with how American democracy is working. Around half of Republicans (51%) ...

The New York Historical’s expansive Tang Wing highlights the role of protest for America’s 250th anniversary.

Floridians will decide whether a man who tried to upend democracy can help lead one. In Wisconsin, Harry Wait said he set out to expose the potential for voter fraud. He ordered mail ballots in the ...

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 ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential ...

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 ...

Right-leaning Americans aim to restore democracy's founding values, not undermine them, according to data gathered by the SNF ...

A majority of Americans worry this year’s general election will be tainted by fraud, according to a recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released earlier this month—an ominous indication of the state of ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...