Often when politicians take actions to undermine democracy, they loudly proclaim that their actions are necessary to “save democracy.” It reminds me of the Vietnam-era line about destroying a village ...

But elections seem to be at the core of of democracy as it's realized through representative institutions in the modern era. That leads to your second question about what we mean by modern. Here we ...

In the Dec. 31 Post-Bulletin editorial "Stand up for democracy," it said the United States and Israel are the only nations willing to stand up for Iraq and Palestine democracies. Decades ago, we went ...

They were among the first Americans off the boats in France and were heroes on the battlefield during World War I, while also fulfilling crucial non-combat roles that helped lead the allies to victory ...

A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in late August found that 67 percent of U.S. adults think “the nation’s democracy is in danger of collapse.” That is what President Biden said in Philadelphia, ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...