Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

Fear of another Trump presidency is pushing some undecided voters toward Biden. While it's practically a given that economic issues rank as the most important to voters, and policy issues like ...

The hard lesson of 2024 is that liberals spent too much time fretting that Donald Trump would subvert democracy if he lost and not enough that Trump would win a free and fair election. We can argue ...

But Democrats and Republicans have different concerns. Americans are worried about their democracy to an unprecedented degree. Only 28 percent of adults said they were satisfied with the way democracy ...

More and more Americans are turning against democracy. According to a 2023 survey from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, 24% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans agree with the statement, ...

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives, gradually integrating itself into a ...

If Connecticut is to flourish in the decades ahead, we must recommit to the simplest democratic act: talking to one another.

This personal reflection is part of a series called Turning Points, in which writers explore what critical moments from this ...

Editorial: The power of democracy was on full display in Baltimore this past weekend as an attempt to overturn the will of ...

When gunfire echoed through Cotonou, Benin, last Sunday and a small group of soldiers appeared on national TV claiming to ...

Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

As a presidential election year approaches, Americans are returning to a familiar ritual: debating who deserves our vote. In early October, on the nation’s most-watched cable news channel, the ...