Friends, I am committed to updating you here every other week with my reflections on philanthropy, civil society, and democracy in America. Alas, a sprawling and recalcitrant draft has conspired ...

Research explores why some people support democratic ideals while accepting authoritarian practices, revealing tensions ...

Texas A&M University Professor Dr. Kirby Goidel reflects on the "march of democracy" as America's 247th birthday nears. A professor of political science in the Bush School of Government and Public ...

Winston Churchill famously said, "Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all those other forms that have been tried." However, that presumes people agree on what the term actually means.

Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

Often when politicians take actions to undermine democracy, they loudly proclaim that their actions are necessary to “save democracy.” It reminds me of the Vietnam-era line about destroying a village ...

On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff speaks to Vice President Kamala Harris about the state of American democracy, the Democrats' agenda and the ...

I read a response in the June 27 Bandon Western World by one of our local elected officials that stated “… you have to admire the Republican senators for walking out when they could not persuade the ...

Sen. Mike Lee has been tweeting some interesting things. During Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, Lee declared on Twitter, “We’re not a democracy.” That raised some eyebrows, to say the ...