Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

At a time when polarization often drowns out nuance, a new report from More in Common titled “Shared Ideals, Divergent Realities” offers a revealing portrait of Americans’ views on democracy in the ...

For generations, Americans have clung to the idea that our troops fight to protect (and sometimes export) our freedom. But as Americans increasingly fight over what democracy really means domestically ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of ...

Democracy is deteriorating in much of the world and changes in the United States under President Donald Trump threaten to accelerate the decline, according to a pro-democracy institute that has the ...

Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Raina Raskin Mr. Douthat is a Times Opinion columnist and the host of the “Interesting ...

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder told "Meet the Press" why it is a threat to democracy when Republicans gerrymander, but saving democracy when Democrats respond with gerrymandering. Holder leads ...