The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on dissent, using Charlie Kirk’s assassination and other flashpoints to justify a sweeping authoritarian project. The Trump administration is ...

Mr. Dionne is a contributing Opinion writer. Politics are often distorted by arguments rooted in false choices. It’s hard to find a better example than the one Democrats keep wrestling with: Should ...

The partisan fight to draw maps that determine how Americans are represented has entered a dangerous spiral. Texas is racing ahead with a mid-decade congressional redraw designed to lock in additional ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University (THE CONVERSATION) In an ...

Democracy in the United States has never been a gift from the powerful. It has always been won, expanded and defended by those forced to live on the margins. And no people have done more to create, ...

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 ...

President Trump is signing an executive order today renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War — the title it held for over 150 years until just after the Second World War, when the ...

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 ...

University of Salford provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The proposed reorganisation of council boundaries was probably not the issue which prompted British voters to elect ...