Democracy appears to be the preferred choice for government by people around the world but the political currents tilting toward populism, far-right extremism and military dictatorships also show ...

Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, a new book by Osita Nwanevu, a writer for The New Republic and The ...

Winston Churchill famously quipped on the floor of British House of Commons in November 1947, “Democracy is the worst form of government except all the other forms that have been tried from time ...

Economy / The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy. Osita Nwanevu This piece is excerpted from the author’s The Right of the People: Democracy ...

Katie Black, another senior, said, "I think that 'democracy' is kind of more like a thought or an idea for government and a 'republic' is the actual form of government." ...

If you assume that democracy is the only legitimate form of government, that is a perfectly serviceable distinction. “What should not be, cannot be,” wrote the German poet.

But in a democracy, the choice should be made by elected officials who are responsible to their constituents. Instead, the cheating befuddles voters and makes government unstable.

Folks of all political stripes make proud pronouncements of their patriotism on July 4th. But anti-democracy deeds speak louder than words.

He delivered them during the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution, arguing that the surest safeguard against legislators and a government bent on malfeasance is the people themselves.