With the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence around the corner, Wesleyan civic engagement student ...

More Perfect, an American alliance dedicated to revitalizing democracy, today announced a major new partnership with the Tocqueville Foundation of Normandy, France to advance a renewed transatlantic ...

People are always asking, “Do you think that the world is moving toward an authoritarian system of government? Do you think that philosophy is moving toward a new anti-idealistic realism ? Do you ...

History reminds us that progress has never come from moderation or retreat. It has come from people who refused to wait their turn, who organized, resisted, and reshaped the nation. This is not a ...

A major new U.K. study of 12- to 17-year-olds finds that, while most adolescents say they would vote and are interested in ...

Since the founding of the United States, democracy and higher education have been deeply intertwined. The early architects of the republic recognized that democracy requires an educated citizenry ...

Much of today’s public discourse suggests that democracy is eroding — under threat, unraveling, or being dismantled. These conversations often fall along familiar partisan lines, with each side ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kids. Zoomers. Whippersnappers. You know, those bipedal mysteries who are bopping around with a simultaneous look of disdain and ...

I sat with a group of my students in Jule’s Coffee Shop, our unofficial town hall in Cuba, Illinois, as they interviewed a group of retired educators and local “old timers,” including Peck. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rally on Capitol Hill in support of democracy, Oct. 1. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP) (AP) Today, Americans are less likely to believe that ...

That same year Mann, the author of “The Magic Mountain” and “Death in Venice,” launched a lecture series across this country. Late in 1938, the published record of Mann’s lectures appeared. Mann ...

IT IS easy enough to understand why friends of liberty and of democratic institutions all over the world should be looking anxiously in the direction of France. Since the early part of the year our ...