Warning signs are sobering. Local reflections can be discouraging. But despair is not the answer. The story of democracy is not written by leaders alone … it is written by ordinary citizens. The good ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's workforce, more than ...

Karrin Vasby Anderson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Jeffrey Orenstein serves as managing director of the Saving Democracy Institute. A new think tank based in Lakewood Ranch aims to save democracy with the power of civic discourse. The Saving Democracy ...

Last school year, Massachusetts teacher Andrew Swan started to feel like the assignments he had long relied on to illustrate how government works for his students were falling short. In one, his 8th ...

On Oct. 25, 2023, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, stood before his colleagues and the world in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was his first speech since his unlikely rise from ...

One in three elections around the world is being contested. Turnout is dropping. By many indicators, democracy is backsliding. So what can reverse this trend? Valery Perry, Ph.D., is a senior ...

College campuses have the power to transform political cynicism into action, and student-led political clubs are leading the charge. ORACLE GRAPHIC/MAIA HENNAWY We constantly hear that we’re living in ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Some two dozen protests were scheduled around Indiana on Labor Day, including at the Statehouse. It was part of a nationwide movement focusing on “Workers Over Billionaires.” “Our goal ...

The term “culture wars” is most often associated with issues of sexuality, race, religion, and gender. But, as recent months have made plain, when Donald Trump refers to the culture wars, he also ...