Why not try populism? (May 11, letter to the editor, Helen Harberts.) Because there’s a Constitution, the golden rule, the Hippocratic oath, and the 10 Commandments. Our own personal moral guides us, ...

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...

For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past forty years have proven democracy comes at a great cost to those most marginalized. I started questioning ...

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...