The 200-year history of democracy, told through an animated time-lapsed map showing how government systems have evolved over ...

Liu argues that Stanford needs to engage politically during Democracy Day, and future programming needs to be more conducive ...

Political science scholars examined worldwide democratic backsliding and emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions during a Wednesday event titled “Global Challenges & Responses to ...

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In 1981, Murad Velshi was running to represent his district in the Ontario Legislature. He never stood a chance, but he ...

Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

WASHINGTON — It's a display on the National Mall designed to be temporary ... and chilling. A 3,000-pound ice sculpture of the word "DEMOCRACY" was placed on the mall Wednesday morning with the U.S.

In conversation with KPBS, journalist Osita Nwanevu argues that the United States is not a true democracy and needs to ...

EPA Seeks to Revoke “Endangerment Finding” to Further Gut Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emission “Hard to Breathe”: Mother-and-Daughter Activists from Cancer Alley Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment “Plan ...

I’ve been too busy to blog much this past week, either about my own work or the NYU Democracy Project. But here are three essays from last week in the NYU Democracy Project series of 100 essays in 100 ...

Our democracy is only as strong as the people who stand up to defend it. Right now, that strength is being tested. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case that could weaken Section 2 of the Voting ...