Experts at the Athens Democracy Forum this week will explore the challenges to democracy, from artificial intelligence and subversion to complacency and inequality. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...

Maria Corina Machado’s 2025 Nobel Peace Prize faces backlash. Critics cite her role in coups, US sanctions, La Salida ...

On the Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Polarization is eroding trust in science, universities and experts. What does that mean for the future of democracy? Roger Pielke Jr. a ...

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 ...

To decrease division in our country and politics, we need to get rid of political primaries and return to party insiders choosing candidates in “smoke-filled back rooms.” Primaries result in ...

October 6 is the first Monday of the month. It is the traditional start of the U.S. Supreme Court term. It is also the twentieth year with John Roberts as Chief Justice. While American democracy faces ...

Turner Van Slyke ’28 was sitting at his dorm room desk in February when he received an unusual message over LinkedIn. The note was from James Intriligator, a mechanical engineering professor at Tufts ...

Despite growing up in the Soviet Union, host Garry Kasparov admired American values—believing America was one of the good guys. But is that still the case? In the final episode of the second season of ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assasination, legacy media organizations — including the New York Times — have published news stories and analysis on modern American “polarization.” Since 2022, ...

Members of the state Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve a ruling clarifying that they are not responsible for ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sharply criticized President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with Reuters on Monday (September 29), saying the president has "done nothing to make our city ...