Have you ever wondered if the way a country is governed could affect the way its people behave? Does democratic governance ...

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

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

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Monday morning that promises to crack down on “unreasonable or ...

Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines the difference: “Because democracy is an abstract name for a system and republic is the ...

Russia will host a celebration in Red Square commemorating victory in WWII, watch who gathers there with Putin.

We are now in a new era, dominated at home by a ferocious attention to cutting the budget deficit and the national debt.

In democratic nations like the United States ... What we’re seeing is a world where people—and nations—are both pulling back. And this psychological withdrawal has real consequences ...

For the last 13 years, he has done so at Pritzker College Prep in the Chicago neighborhood of Hermosa, where he instructs sophomores in World History ... would be more democratic, short of that ...