In this busy year of national elections around the world, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election watchers from Ghana, Venezuela and Georgia about how democracy is being challenged where they are. 2024 ...

A select number of seminal Supreme Court decisions are remembered as monumental feats of justice. To name a few, Brown v. Board of Education, Tinker v. Des Moines and Roe v. Wade all bettered the ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the word "democracy" appeared for the first time in the English language in the 13th century. It was in a translation of Aristotle's Politics. Aristotle ...

One of the strange paradoxes of modern democracy is the fact that those who are incapable of mastering its tough habits and finer rituals have taken to teaching its practice. As Oscar Wilde once ...

An American Democracy Built for the People: Why Democracy Matters and How To Make It Work for the 21st Century Although democracy is failing to meet the needs of many Americans, it is far preferable ...

Speaking as the chief guest, Manju said Begum Khaleda Zia was the architect of modern democracy in Bangladesh and a leader of uncompromising principles. Ignoring injustices, oppression and persecution ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...