Like many Americans, I was troubled by President Trump's Jan. 20 executive order granting full commutations and pardons to all those indicted or sentenced for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

The new administration has empowered a handful of extremely rich people to exert disproportionate influence over the ...

The teachings of Jesus Christ and the writings of James Madison reconcile strikingly well, a Brookings Institute senior ...

But the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that Donald Trump and JD Vance advanced at their press briefing Thursday—which was nominally in response to the tragic mid-air ...

An exhibition on view through March 16, 2025, at the Milwaukee Art Museum demonstrates how photographers have understood and ...

A recent Gallup poll shows 34% of Americans are satisfied with U.S. democracy, up from a record low of 28% last year. However ...

The Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust have a lot in common. Together, they hope to be greater than the sum ...

Is the United States a model democracy? Not that long ago, I suspect, most Americans would have answered with a resounding yes. But times have changed. We've lost confidence in our own system of ...

New research from broadcaster Channel 4 reveals a troubling trend towards support for authoritarianism among young people in ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Years of organizing, educating and empowering people to defend themselves from racist ...

The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.