This Independence Day, we will tell ourselves a lot of stories about what it means to be American. One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the ...

Two-hundred and fifty years ago, the American revolution sent shockwaves around the globe. At the same time, events taking ...

Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pointing to a busy retirement next year. She and the University of California, Berkeley, ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

As the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country as exceptional, a new poll finds. The ...

The current moment may seem like an odd time to herald a promising renewal of political leadership in the United States. In the presidential election, two men—one in his ninth decade, the other about ...

Voting rights activists protest on Oct. 15, 2025, outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court prepared to hear arguments in the case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call ...

A group of advocates has formally expressed concern over plans by Judson University to host Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik as a featured speaker at its upcoming World Leaders Forum, titled ...

HELENE LANDEMORE is a professor of political science at Yale University. She is also a fellow at the Ethics in AI Institute at the University of Oxford and an advisor to the Democratic inputs to AI ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...

In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United States and growing political polarization, scholars and citizens across the country are reimagining how American democracy ...