Our name means “the people.” It is the root word of democracy, and it reminds us that the true source of our greatness is the diversity of our people. The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter ...

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The biggest change came from Bangladesh, which dropped 25 places. Rebuilding democracy there will be an enormous task after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, the country’s longtime autocratic ruler.

But for those looking for some glimmer of hope, it’s also true that it’s likely too early to be so pessimistic about the prospect of American democracy’s survival. There are clear signs that ...

Last October, two-thirds of Americans said the erosion of democracy over the next decade was the nation’s most pressing threat. It took just a few days into his second presidency for Donald ...

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Putin directly threatened pro-democracy activists and civil servants who had led the pro-democracy push in the country after the 2014 revolution ousting a pro-Russian government. "We know their ...

But what does the term mean? Is America an oligarchy? And how does oligarchy help explain American democracy today? Political rhetoric scholar Luke Winslow, Ph.D., associate professor of communication ...

It doesn’t need loyal militias on the streets. All it takes for the world’s greatest democracy to fall is to fire those who believe in doing their job. It’s just one month into Donald Trump ...

"We the People Will Write This Chapter" Accepting the NAACP Chairman’s Award, Harris reflected on the ongoing struggles for justice and democracy, emphasizing that the future of the country is shaped ...

And if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy." ...

He attempted so violent a power grab that the institutional immune system tasked with protecting Brazil’s democracy was shocked into overdrive. The U.S. might have done the same thing.