As President Donald Trump completes his first 100 days back in the White House — which were marked by a firehouse of ...

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of ...

Pete Buttigieg held a town hall in Cedar RapidsTuesday, fielding questions from veterans and community members.Buttigieg won ...

A conversation with scholar Larry Diamond about the state of U.S. democracy.

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

American authoritarianism is a decades-old phenomenon, fueled by the expansion of executive power, economic inequality, and ...

Robert De Niro tore into President Trump at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, labeling him “America’s philistine president ...

is both a cause and effect of America’s democracy crisis and rising authoritarianism (and increasingly naked fascism). The forces that summoned up the Age of Trump are not new; they have much ...

In a data-driven society, numeracy is central to civic life, and yet too many Americans are numerically illiterate.

The United States is pulling back from its role in spreading democratic ideals abroad under President Donald Trump.

Timely exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution touches on themes in the national conversation around democratic values ...