Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of ...

Osita Nwanevu discusses his new book, how our political structure turned up the temperature after Charlie Kirk, and what ...

America is deeply divided politically, and the signs are everywhere. A recentQuinnipiac University Poll found that 53% of Americans believe democracy is not currently working, while 41% […] ...

Reflecting on the conditions for the maintenance of republican government (what we would today call “democracy”), James Madison observed that “a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free ...

The role of public education in educating for democracy / Daniel Romer, Patrick E. Jamieson, and Bruce W. Hardy -- The effectiveness of the press in serving the needs of American democracy / Kathleen ...

From around 2014 to 2021, two important, long-needed “reckonings” were happening. The mainstream media was reevaluating its coverage of politics and beginning to recognize that its attempt to cover ...