Republican State Representative Jason Zachary said the rationale plainly: “It was absolutely drafted on politics.” He ...

What if political parties are a big part of the answer? I know, I know. You have mixed feelings about parties. So did James ...

King Charles III’s address Tuesday to a Joint Session of Congress was both an historic event and an historical irony. The world witnessed a British king lecturing the world’s premier legislature about ...

The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Mature minds understand that if you desire a particular result, you should embrace the means thereto. Sensible people want the ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...

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, ...

Around the world, democracy as a system of government is backsliding. After more than 50 years of liberal democracy in ascendancy, democratic progress plateaued around the turn of the century and is ...

A journal called Liberal Currents recently invited me to contribute to a scholarly symposium on what the editor, Adam Gurri, described as “how we can move to a new, stable democratic regime after ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...

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