Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

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President Biden warns about the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump in the campaign's first ad of 2024. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I've made the preservation of democracy the central issue of my ...

President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in New York University’s department of politics and an affiliated professor in NYU School of Law. He is the author ...

On June 10, 2018, Americans learned that the president of the United States was routinely ripping apart memos, letters, annotated newspaper clippings and other pieces of paper that crossed his desk.

Silvia Federici and Astra Taylor in What Is Democracy? (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

DEMOCRACY IS THE most widely accepted form of governance, yet its flaws have become increasingly apparent in recent years. Gridlocked legislatures, low trust in the press, and judiciaries challenged ...

The last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once, Americans argued about it, and then they tried to fix it. “The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated ...

Eighth-grade U.S. history and civics test scores dropped last year to their lowest levels ever recorded by the Department of Education. These are just the latest declines among subjects tested since ...