The Daily sat down for a Q&A with political science Prof. Anna Galland, who teaches a seminar titled “U.S. Democracy in Crisis: Perspectives on the Path.” Outside Northwestern, she works as an ...

American democracy is in real trouble, but history, law, social science, and global politics all suggest that rights can be ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Kimmel arrives at the third annual Rare Impact Fund Benefit: A Night of Radiance & Reflection on Oct. 29, 2025, at nya ...

Mr. Witt is the author of “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.” As democracy in the United States spirals into a widening gyre of distrust, demagogy and ...

In the aftermath of the killing of the far-right ideologue Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration has vowed to “dismantle,” “target” and “destroy” all domestic political opposition. These hysterical ...

How inevitable is the decline of liberal democracy? For a brief, heady moment after the Cold War, liberal democracy seemed not only in the ascendance but inevitable. History, according to that now ...

The Harvard political scientist says the real problem is a weak culture of debate on campuses, not ideological diversity.

What we are living through is not a crisis of leadership. It is a crisis of meaning. Across continents and cultures, people ...

By 2025, democracy in Africa stood at a crossroads—marked by both resilience and regression in almost equal measure.