Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

The New York Times Opinion columnist David French, a lifelong evangelical, speaks to Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an atheist, about the role of Christianity in ...

The media is often called the “fourth estate” because it stands apart from government, yet its influence can be just as ...

For generations, Americans have clung to the idea that our troops fight to protect (and sometimes export) our freedom. But as Americans increasingly fight over what democracy really means domestically ...

Mr. Dionne is a contributing Opinion writer. Politics are often distorted by arguments rooted in false choices. It’s hard to find a better example than the one Democrats keep wrestling with: Should ...

On many levels, the re-election of Donald Trump looks like an aberration, a singular event that stands outside the expected flow of history. After all, America has never elected a convicted felon as ...

George F. Will will speak at Notre Dame on politics, Madison’s ideas and democracy’s challenges. Free and livestreamed.

Former HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, co-chair of the Kamala Harris campaign, told PBS News that she believes reproductive rights are an important issue, but not the only concern for women voters. “More ...

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...