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 ...

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 ...

This summer I was invited to join a discussion at Harvard’s Kennedy School on decaying democracies. Israel’s internal conflict, the unfolding war in Gaza and the hostage situation are all connected to ...