Episcopal Church USA leaders call on Christians to emulate the late priest, civil rights activist and legal scholar.

From the first week of the administration, that posture was made clear. President Trump immediately signed a barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ executive actions, including a reversal of federal nondiscrimination ...

Trump all too often displays an unseemly lust for the arrest, prosecution, trial and even the execution of his political enemies.

Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it ...

Frank Chouraqui is a non-active member of the Dutch political party Groenlinks-PvdA (center left) We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Mathematicians studying voting systems have uncovered structural flaws that challenge the idea of a perfectly fair democracy. Their findings suggest that no system can satisfy every requirement for ...

The most unsettling image for a liberal observer is not a tank rolling into a presidential palace; it is the crowd of cheering citizens running alongside it. We create comfortable narratives to ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...

A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Eupen, Belgium About two dozen ...

About half of Americans say democracy is performing poorly, according to a survey. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey found that 51 percent of respondents ...

All four proposals to radically reshape Essex democracy have been put out for consultation by the government. The 15 councils in the county will be replaced with either five, four or three all-purpose ...