A vote center in San Diego County. Courtesy Registrar of Voters If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team.

Law Minister Edwin Tong discusses how governments' failure to deliver, not inherent system flaws, strains democracy. Read ...

A third of Turkish adults are satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country, while the other two-thirds express dissatisfaction. More than a third (37%) say they are not satisfied at ...

The major public opinion survey institutions in the US (Pew Research, Gallup, and others) and the UK (YouGov UK, Ipsos UK, and others) are telling the same story. The citizens of both countries are ...

Of The EmpireWe will be known as a culture that feared deathand adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurityfor the few and cared little for the penury of themany. We will be known as a culture tha ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine that we’ve all – all ...

Long before European governments or their colonies began to embrace "democracy," something far more democratic was widely practiced in the world's vast ungovernable spaces. Black Sam Bellamy's 1717 ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Vice President J.D. Vance met with European allies at the Munich Security Conference as he discussed the criticism of European governance, particularly with regard to the treatment of ...