Venezuela’s road to democracy does not start or end with Trump’s extraction of Maduro, writes journalist Helena Carpio.

At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and ...

After a year of new leadership, court fights, dramatic change to the federal government, and deep political division, where ...

Though many are worried about the potential economic harm of Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the independence of the ...

A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Eupen, Belgium About two dozen ...

The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

Democracy is, at its core, a creative experiment. It asks us to imagine a collective future, to give shape to the aspirations of a people, and to continually rework what justice and equity look like ...

Despite widespread concern about declining levels of trust, Canadian analytics firm Environics finds that overall levels of ...

Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan According to our recent survey of officials in Michigan communities, local democracy ...

EUPEN, Belgium – About two dozen people met in a white stone parliament building in eastern Belgium on a recent Saturday. They held a lively debate over the region’s retirement policy and hashed out ...