If supporters of liberal democracy want to win the battle, outrage and resistance will not be enough. They will have to defeat the arguments of the strongman leaders.

Is democracy actually the best form of government? If so, which type of democracy? For millennia, different strands of democratic theory have arisen, shaping how democracy emerges, survives, declines, ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

US president Donald Trump is surrounded by a new cohort of politicians and officials. While one of his campaign promises was ...

First of three parts WITH the elections consuming our country's political life up to May, and with the past 2022 polls giving ...

Like Trump, Kennedy for years has wielded a firehose of falsehoods across multiple fronts and has engaged in assorted ...

Republicans are caving to Trump, Democrats are paralyzed, news outlets fear retribution. Who is going to stop the ...

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative ... he argues that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls ...

(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Column by Philip Bump Exit polling suggests that about a third of those who cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election viewed American democracy as the ...

Trump may well be applying the madman theory to trade negotiations as well, with his mega-tariffs serving as his nuclear threat. If so, he’d see his reputation for belligerent unpredictability as an ...