Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (gguy44/iStock Images) Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

Democrats warned that the 2024 election presented a choice between democracy and autocracy, competence and incompetence, and a government that works for all the people and one that would be dismantled ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

From his creation of a ‘papers-please’ police force to unilateral military actions to his disregard of court orders, even those who warned it would happen are alarmed.

There was a lot going on in the "Houthi PC small group" chat, in which top officials of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration used the Signal messaging app to discuss imminent attacks on the ...

After less than nine months in his second term in office, Americans are now finding what President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Project 2025 are all about — rebuilding America from a ...

Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the ...