Our modern democracy has always been under attack, and no one ever knew. Democracy has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Since then, the system of democracy has undoubtedly evolved ...

Last month, the state of Illinois took the first step in over 70 years to fix an under-funded and resource-starved public defense system when the Illinois House of Representatives passed the Funded ...

Given the tumultuous state of politics in the United States, it’s understandable that many people are asking themselves, “What is democracy?” By definition, democracy is a form of government that ...

Pope Francis cited the examples of Western intervention in Libya and Iraq in arguing that the West should not “export” its own "type of democracy” to other countries, according to a recently published ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of government had been created, to which he famously replied, “A ...

Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson urged people to "reimagine" freedom and democracy beyond the Founders' "little piece of paper" at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last week.

In the vast majority of the 24 countries surveyed, politicians are the most common subject of proposals to improve democracy. Some call for different types of people to enter the political arena, ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values, and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

U.S. must prepare for new types of war, say heads of Defense Strategy panel A Ukrainian soldier of 3rd assault brigade prepares FPV exploding drone before flight over Russian positions in Kharkiv ...

Guillermo O'Donnell's influential work 'Delegative Democracy' set the discourse on a peculiar type of democracy. Lying between representative democracy and authoritarianism, the uniqueness of ...

During the Trump administration there was a period of considerable public interest in a topic that many of us knew little about: abnormal psychology. We learned about personality disorders, about ...