“The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the face of the earth.” — Abraham Lincoln (16th US President in his globally acclaimed less than two minutes ...

On the contrary, No Kings is not “what democracy looks like” — at least not in the founders’ republic.

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

Several of the leaders President Trump will encounter are either autocrats or presiding over fragile democracies. And some ...

American democracy may be broken, but democracy as a practice remains the best system for the betterment of all people.

Democracy isn’t collapsing from single blows. It is being chipped away—internally and externally. To survive, it requires ...

A great majority (80%), or about eight in 10 Filipino adults, said that they still prefer democracy in the Philippines, even ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance.

Political science scholars emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions in a Wednesday event marking the launch ...

Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Oriana Korol has since been transported across state lines, and her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again.