Democracy cannot survive without memory or it runs the risk of turning itself into an authoritarian state. It requires citizens to confront injustice, to learn from the crimes of the past, and to ...

Editor: Winston Churchill famously described democracy as the worst form of government “except for all the others.” He was saying, in effect, that the governing of a nation can be messy, so let’s not ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. There’s lots of talk these days about the death of democracy. In National City this week, a ...

Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy told CNN on Monday night that the Trump administration threatening to ignore court orders to halt cuts to federal government agencies is "a really dire moment" ...

In 2020, Democrats won a convincing election victory. They proceeded to do what all victorious parties do. They passed legislation in accord with their priorities, including raising health insurance ...

We are a Capitalist country. Our nation has created greater wealth than any other society in Global history. But the distribution of those riches is outrageously skewed toward the top. The result, the ...

I have witnessed the death of democracy. I don’t mean in a poor country with few democratic institutions and a weak rule of law. I don’t mean via a military coup or under pressure from a hostile power ...

We hear a lot these days about the imminent demise of our democracy. Well, look no further than the House of Representatives in Olympia for evidence of this trend. For the past 132 years a procedural ...