Israel’s military has issued new evacuation orders for neighborhoods of Gaza City as Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest urban area. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians ...

With deep divides and polarization eroding civil discourse, we need the imagination and the skills that artists and designers ...

There has been much talk of late about the institution of American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. This discussion has focused largely on the formal legal basis for democratic institutions ...

While there remains room for improvement, particularly in increasing voter turnout, school boards nevertheless exemplify the ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

Dear friends, thank you very much for inviting me here. Today, I want to share three messages with you all. My first message is that democracy is not just another ideology. Democracy is the system ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.

As authoritarian leaders challenge democratic institutions around the world, some people are questioning whether democracy is even the best political system. In a wide-ranging conversation, writer ...

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel ... I guess there really is a cancel culture. And I wonder who is next. Perhaps cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer for publishing letters like this one? And unless we ...