Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

Retired US District Judge Mark L. Wolf is senior counsel at Todd & Weld and a member of the Task Force for Democracy. Every ...

The US was not a true democracy before the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday’s decision has essentially destroyed the law ...

The United States is in a period with a “persistence of diminished democracy,” according to a report that will be released on Tuesday. It’s the third study released in the last week that concludes ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s “attacks on the press, academia, civil liberties, and dissenting voices” as reasons to downgrade the US ...

The gunman who allegedly aimed to target President Donald Trump’s Cabinet at an annual dinner celebrating free speech ...

President Trump is doing all he can to deprive us of precious freedoms, turn our country into an authoritarian state, rule with near-dictatorial powers and rig elections in favor of Republicans. He is ...

In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is ...

What’s next, America? We are fully enmeshed in the throes of a complete take-over of our democracy. The person in the White House, the worst president in the history of our country, day after day ...

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(CNN) — “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 Varieties of ...