America is deeply divided politically, and the signs are everywhere. A recentQuinnipiac University Poll found that 53% of Americans believe democracy is not currently working, while 41% […] ...

From the halls of Harvard to the news desk at MSNBC and everywhere left in between, accusations of President Donald Trump and Republicans waging a "war on democracy" flow like a raging flood.

The price of being a historical witness can at times be quite steep. One moment, witnesses are confronted with uplifting ...

Reflecting on the conditions for the maintenance of republican government (what we would today call “democracy”), James Madison observed that “a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free ...