Our modern democracy has always been under attack, and no one ever knew. Democracy has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Since then, the system of democracy has undoubtedly evolved ...

Last month, the state of Illinois took the first step in over 70 years to fix an under-funded and resource-starved public defense system when the Illinois House of Representatives passed the Funded ...

If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team. Unfortunately, global democracy is a field divided. And not primarily by ...

Pope Francis cited the examples of Western intervention in Libya and Iraq in arguing that the West should not “export” its own "type of democracy” to other countries, according to a recently published ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. THE CONVERSATION — President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would slash ...

Americans today—indeed, it’s nearly unanimous on our earthly globe—accept democracy (or, “republic,” the representative type of democracy) as the supreme form of human government. The people should ...

This bold debut from Guardian columnist Nwanevu calls for a major overhaul of American democracy. Looking to ancient Athens as the supposed forerunner of today’s system, Nwanevu points out that, ...

Francis responded that that chaos was due in part to ‘the failure of the West in its attempt to import its own type of democracy’ in some countries around the world. A priest surveys the damage caused ...

When the ancient Greeks came up with the concept of democracy, they envisioned a form of government in which the power rested with many, and not just a monarch or some other potentially despotic ...

During the Trump administration there was a period of considerable public interest in a topic that many of us knew little about: abnormal psychology. We learned about personality disorders, about ...