Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...

Steve Bannon says Trump should serve a third term as president, as questions are raised about who is paying for Trump's new ballroom, and what they might get in return. Sen. Amy Klobuchar joins The ...

Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, argued her first case in front of the Supreme Court this week, defending Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which ...

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

The mayor-elect discusses the New York City Housing Authority, a possible Department of Community Safety, and more.

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 ...

“I’ve learned how to keep my cool in the face of turmoil,” she writes early in the book. “But now that our democracy hangs in the balance, those days of channeling the thoughts and decisions of others ...

On Dec. 15, 1791, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution were ratified, forming what we know as the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment states, among other things, that Congress shall make ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A host of countries in Africa have seen more political unrest, violent extremism, and democratic reversals since 2020 than in ...

The Trump administration fired two federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia after they voiced opposition to the criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James. That’s ...