Would Keeping Trump Off the Ballot Hurt or Help Democracy?
A Donald Trump campaign volunteer laying out campaign signs before an event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this month. As the top elections official in Washington State, Steve Hobbs says he…
‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat
Heather Cox Richardson, a writer, professor and an expert historian in 19th-century America, poses for a portrait in her study at her home. Kevin Seefried did what the rebel army…
Abortion, guns, democracy: US rights at stake as supreme court term begins
Experts say at stake this supreme court term is no less than ‘the future of government as we know it’. The US supreme court will gather on Monday at the…
The US has a mental health crisis that could undermine our democracy, US surgeons general say
Play CNN — While working in the West Wing under President George W. Bush, then- US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After…
Conservative retired judge says Trump ‘corroded and corrupted American democracy’
An influential group of Republican legal voices called for a Jan. 2024 trial date to be set for Donald Trump for his attempt to overturn the presidential election. The group…
When Did the U.S. Become a Democracy?
Until fairly recently, that would have seemed like a peculiar question. But many experts on American history and political science say U.S. democracy is relatively young. Voters complete their ballots…
The United States of America: The great satan or beacon of democracy?
Double-exposure-image-of-the-Statue-of-Liberty-and-the-American-flag. Image: iStock Since Australia has mortgaged its future to this nation it is worth debating the matter. The preambles to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as statement…
Man who crashed U-Haul truck near White House wanted to end U.S. democracy, prosecutors say
The man accused of crashing a box truck into barriers near the White House in a bid to overthrow the government planned to give a speech announcing the end of…
Letter | United States is a ‘representative democracy’
I write to challenge a Letter to the Editor claiming our founders used the terms republic and democracy interchangeably. Quite the contrary. The authors of the Constitution did not equate…
Is Hungary’s Present the United States’ Future?: On Zsuzsanna Szelényi’s “Tainted Democracy”
ON APRIL 3, 2022, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz-MPP party won two-thirds of the National Assembly seats—a parliamentary supermajority—for the fourth consecutive time since 2010. In his…