It is no wonder we witness daily the excesses of the executive branch of government with so many Americans incapable of understanding the checks and balances that protect us from tyranny. | Opinion ...

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What about Uruguay’s structure has led to success in maintaining democracy? What lessons can the country offer to the region ...

Today, however, democracy is facing challenges in part because the pathways to real estate ownership are increasingly out of ...

Lately, I’ve been thinking about that essay. Democracy doesn’t collapse overnight. It erodes slowly — when citizens tune out, when facts get blurry, when fear divides us and when the rule of ...

Our proclamation of independence identified key principles—equality, human dignity, and social justice. These ideals ...

The end of history, it seems, is marked not by an ever-widening embrace of liberal democracy and free markets, but by the progressive centralization of national political power in a “unitary ...

reasonably live inside a bubble of manufactured facts depending on one’s viewpoint. How can democracy survive when we can’t even agree on a basic fact anymore? Our greatest strength is in our ...

Elon Musk is handing out million-dollar checks in Wisconsin just ahead of a critical state supreme court election. Democratic ...

Those of us who have studied the history of Rome know that you can’t debauch a democratic republic overnight. Many Democrats ...