There has been much talk of late about the institution of American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. This discussion has focused largely on the formal legal basis for democratic institutions ...

By Dr. Andria Porter I first read Plato as an undergraduate. Later, I studied his work in depth during my Ph.D. coursework. Plato viewed democracy as a form of tyranny. He argued that democracy gives ...

This conduct is the stuff of Stalin, of the Iranian mullahs, of Mussolini and, yes, of Hitler in the early to mid 1930s.

"The way we save democracy nationwide is to have a proposal like, for instance, the 'Save Democracy Act.' It's ju ...

This sentiment is, arguably, cringe. But it is also, on the most basic level, the work of politics. And precisely for that reason, it is an attempt to countermand the senses of loneliness and ...

The No Kings protest in Valparaiso was part of roughly 2,500 similar demonstrations against the Trump administration planned ...

The demonstrations against the US president - which Republicans had called "hate-America rallies" - were boisterous but ...

It is not. Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those ...

The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign.

The wealthy have come to realize they cannot convince us to change our way of life and support their feeling that they deserve to be cared for by the ...

Speakers at No Kings rallies across the country Saturday drew comparisons between their own efforts to mobilize with those of ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Two of U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys traveled to Israel Monday to shore up the tenuous ...