Police have calmly arrested hundreds of people in Washington, D.C. protesting the influence of money in politics during the last week, in what several participants described as a striking display of ...

The intrinsic benefits of democracy, including government accountability and personal freedoms, are acknowledged in many countries. Yet, average citizens and democracy advocates also ask, to what ...

Brett McGurk, whose career in U.S. foreign policy and national security includes top White House and State Department positions under four presidents, will be a keynote speaker at the Boston College ...

I know and have co-authored with people who wrote some of the studies that are linked to in this article. The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time ...

The lecture examines the long and tangled modern history of Catholicism and democracy, with one eye toward its implications for the study of global history and another toward our understanding of the ...