The arbitrary arrests and killings committed by agents of Trump’s authoritarian-style rule differ only in number, not in kind, from those in Iran.

To many Israelis, he’s a war hero. To others, he’s a traitor guilty of “blood libel.” Can Yair Golan change politics in ...

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar emphasizes the significance of pure electoral rolls as a foundation for democracy. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiative aims to update electoral ...

The Chief Election Commissioner emphasized the importance of a 'pure' voter list for democracy during an international election management conference. Despite opposition claims of manipulation in the ...

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Many people casually call America a “democracy,” but that’s not quite right. The United States was deliberately founded as a constitutional republic — a system designed to protect liberty by balancing ...

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 ...

It’s often said the United States is a republic, not a democracy. In a pure democracy, the people — all of them — make decisions directly. In a republic, we elect representatives to make decisions on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...