Professor Bob Cropf has spent three decades teaching political science, and is now shifting his focus to political journalism ...

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

The late 19 th century also saw the backsliding of American democracy across the South. After the Civil War and the passage of the 13 th and 14 th Amendments, people of color in the South began to ...

Rock megastar Bruce Springsteen has made a series of critical remarks about US President Donald Trump and the policies of his ...

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

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 ...

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

And America’s republican form of democracy has always wrestled with the same tension that Aristotle faced: How do we share power and wealth? More economic inequality weakens social trust and ...

Donald Trump isn’t making America great again. He’s making it into something else entirely.

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected. Rather than violently suppress opposition ...

With President Donald Trump now having been in office for more than 100 days, concern is growing that he is accumulating so much executive authority that American democracy is in peril.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.