About half of American adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only about one-quarter think it's doing “very” or “moderately” well, according ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply ...

I have noted an uptick in various persons reminding me (and you) that the United States is not a democracy. I've heard it from political panels on TV, during interviews with politicians, and most ...

About half of American adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

"I think it is true that we are more divided and that our democracy is more unstable than at any time in my lifetime," Obama ...

Islamists are trying to destroy the U.S., according to a 200-page, yearlong report.

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...