The playbook to come for our civil rights, our constitutional rights, and racial democracy,” civil rights leader Maya Wiley ...

Direct democracy advocates are concerned about voters’ ability to change Arkansas’ constitution after the state’s Supreme ...

It’s rare for a news day to go by without some mention of extremism. But it’s also rare for the meaning of this word to be ...

Episcopal Church USA leaders call on Christians to emulate the late priest, civil rights activist and legal scholar.

From the first week of the administration, that posture was made clear. President Trump immediately signed a barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ executive actions, including a reversal of federal nondiscrimination ...

Trump all too often displays an unseemly lust for the arrest, prosecution, trial and even the execution of his political enemies.

Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it ...

Basildon Council will ask the government to cancel this May's local elections in the borough. People queued in the rain to hear the Labour-led council tell a meeting it wanted to focus on delivering ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat, to examine how our public sphere slid from healthy debate ...

Mathematicians studying voting systems have uncovered structural flaws that challenge the idea of a perfectly fair democracy. Their findings suggest that no system can satisfy every requirement for ...

The most unsettling image for a liberal observer is not a tank rolling into a presidential palace; it is the crowd of cheering citizens running alongside it. We create comfortable narratives to ...