New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

Challenger for the 3rd Hampden District, Tom Hendrickson, knocks Rep. Nicholas Boldyga of Southwick for not attending committee hearings, calling it 'disgraceful'.

Writing for the blog of the Law and Political Economy Project, Beau Baumann, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, has a provocative question for would-be left-wing ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are dismantling American democracy at a record-breaking pace, according to the latest ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978, according to new research assessing more than 200 ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient ...

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of ...

Two leading democracy watchdog organizations are releasing studies this week that evaluate the state of American democracy after President Trump's first year.

Politics / Q&A / Laura Flanders speaks with Christopher Armitage and Sumathy Kumar about “soft secession” and building a government that actually works for people. Laura Flanders The courts are ...