Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the close of 2025, many progressive ...

As 2025 comes to a close and 2026 is on the horizon, it's time to think seriously about what you want and how to manifest it. Monthly manifestations are essential because we go through the phases of ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

About half of Americans say democracy is performing poorly, according to a survey. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey found that 51 percent of respondents ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

Stanford Continuing Studies, a program that shares educational resources with adult students, hosted the sixth and final installment of its “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series on Nov. 11.

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

The editorial board of The New York Times is laying out an alarming trend toward autocracy under President Donald Trump. In a new analysis, the board outlined a list of a dozen markers of “democratic ...

There’s a large and obvious disconnect in the Democratic Party strategy for combating Donald Trump this year and in the 2026 midterms. Democratic elites and many activists (not to mention millions of ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Voters in Jefferson County will be able to smell democracy and maybe even a bit of nostalgia this Election Day. Historically, the “I Voted” sticker has been a staple for Election Day, ...

You could make a reasonable case that the Democrats’ present woes stem from the misuse of a single word. Their manic, unthinking resistance to everything President Trump says or does has its origins ...

Roxie Nafousi knows a thing or two about transformation. She wasn’t always the embodiment of confidence and calm that she is today. In fact, prior to becoming one of the world’s leading voices in ...