Editorial: Gerrymandering is a serious threat to voters’ faith in democracy. It’s time for Congress to take action.

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

A Washington Post review found at least 16 D.C. police officers who faced the violent mob are omitted from a personnel list displayed at the U.S. Capitol. Two police officers argue in a court filing ...

Two former NASA astronauts announce Astronauts for America, a new organization of over 100 ex-astronauts working to protect ...

Winston Churchill once said that ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.’ And in ...

“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t ...

Something has gone wrong in American politics. The Republican Party I once knew was the party of Abraham Lincoln, who fought to hold a nation together. It was the party of Dwight Eisenhower, who ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

Since the founding of the United States of America, women’s central role in safeguarding democracy has been overlooked—even as women have consistently, generation after generation, worked to protect ...

A system can remain formally democratic while exhibiting significant distortions in competition, accountability and the rule ...