Nonprofits play a vital role in advocating for justice, fostering accountability, and amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Imagine a future where the government can shut down nonprofits, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University (THE CONVERSATION) The New ...

The United States is on a downward trajectory when it comes to respect for civil rights, with an international monitoring group warning that democracy is under threat with the Trump administration’s ...

Michigan State University launched its Presidential Speaker Series with a wide‑ranging and candid conversation on the role of higher education in sustaining democracy and civil discourse. Held at the ...

Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power accountable to justice and constitutional principles.

More and more Americans are turning against democracy. According to a 2023 survey from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, 24% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans agree with the statement, ...

One year after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a pattern emerges. Across dozens of executive orders, agency memos, funding decisions and enforcement changes, the administration has weakened ...

Alex Soros is the board chair of the Open Society Foundations, the philanthropy funded by his father, George Soros. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta The New York Times reports that a senior Department of ...