Letters to the editor reflect the views of individual readers. Today’s issue: Rule by the people vs. Trump's exercise of ...

Democracy isn’t collapsing from single blows. It is being chipped away—internally and externally. To survive, it requires ...

Nwanevu makes three main claims: “that democracy is good, that America is not a democracy, and that America should become a ...

It’s become common lately to claim that the United States is a republic rather than a democracy, as though these terms are contradictory. LNP | LancasterOnline published the May 19 letter “The United ...

Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by ...

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful protestors ...

On the contrary, No Kings is not “what democracy looks like” — at least not in the founders’ republic.

The terrible truth behind Proposition 50 is that both of our major parties are telling lies and neither supports real ...

Or does autocracy begin when something clicks in the mind of the wannabe authoritarian and he realizes that he can do nearly anything he wants with impunity?

Esther Anatolitis argues for Australia cutting ties with the monarchy in her new book, and has her republican dad and ...