If you have your own encouraging examples of what democracy in America looks like, I would love to hear them. You can write ...

From a man dressed in an inflatable squirrel costume shouting “Trump is nuts!” to a handmade sign that read “Proud anti-fascist,” organizers estimated more than 1,000 people marched and chanted ...

But the Founding Fathers, who favored a republic designed to temper the passions of large assemblies, would not have recognized themselves in the sea of subversives and malcontents at No Kings rallies ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

Mr. Witt is the author of “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.” As democracy in the United States spirals into a widening gyre of distrust, demagogy and ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

There’s a popular and recurring chant that echoed throughout the recent No Kings protests several weeks ago: “This is what democracy looks like.” But on Capitol Hill over the past four weeks, during a ...

A little more than 80 years ago, a group of young military officers joined with Venezuela’s main opposition party to overthrow the country’s ruling dictator. The man who took power, Rómulo Betancourt, ...

Despite growing up in the Soviet Union, host Garry Kasparov admired American values—believing America was one of the good guys. But is that still the case? In the final episode of the second season of ...

The year 2025 will probably not be remembered as a dramatic breaking point for democracy. No sudden collapses. No single moment where everything fell apart. And that is exactly what makes it important ...

This essay appears in our Fall 2025 issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence ...