Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

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 ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

About the author: William Priest is vice chair of TD Wealth and founder of Epoch Investment Partners. He co-authored Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order with David Roche and Alex ...

Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...