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Want to Protect Our Democracy? Here Are Three Key Mental Habits.
Long after Trump is gone, the damage will remain. Each of us needs to find a path back.
How to Save a Democracy
Looking at how the Trump administration fits into a pattern of authoritarian governance can empower people to think about how to best resist the country’s slide to autocracy.
Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate “Politics of Optimism” at His Inauguration
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures and police barricades to be part of Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor on New Year’s Day. Democracy Now! spoke with many Mamdani supporters, including a high school student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, about what the day represented to them, their hopes for the new administration and how it could set a model for progressives across the country. “Organized people will always be more powerful than organized money,” said Diana Moreno, a fellow democratic socialist who is running for Mamdani’s vacant seat in the New York State Assembly.
Labour needs complete ‘reset’ to defeat threat posed by Reform UK, says strategist
New Labour advertising strategist Chris Powell says Reform are threat to democracy and urgent plan must ‘wage and win the daily war for attention’
Letters: Take the political detox challenge
Our nation is currently politically hyperpolarized, threatening the continuing internal peace of our democracy.
Democracy is under attack, right here in Colorado
Remember during COVID, when the people screaming the loudest for government-mandated jabs were the very same people chanting “my body, my choice” when it came to abortion — I mean, “women’s health care”? They’re also the folks who insist a 12-year-old is far too young to get a tattoo, but perfectly mature enough to make […]
Andrew Johnson's 1868 Christmas pardon shows how forgiveness and politics collide
Historical amnesty to confederates is often cited in discussions about pardons for political violence and democracy
Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it?
The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
What explains the perpetual need for political enemies?
Politics today is driven by grievances that can never be assuaged. For democracy’s survival, we must grapple with this dynamic
Trump Now Shares One More Thing in Common With History’s Worst Dictators
This sort of behavior is alien to a republic and a democracy. It is common, however, in dictatorships.
When business and democracy don’t mix
Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins
Jimmy Lai's daughter says he'd focus on family, not activism, if he's freed in Hong Kong
Pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai would devote himself to God and his family rather than political activism if he were released
The Political Limits of Algorithmic Governance
Algorithmic efficiency may undermine the very liberal democracy it was meant to improve.
AI Is Getting Dangerously Good at Political Persuasion
For a while last year, scientists offered a glimmer of hope that artificial intelligence would make a positive contribution to democracy. They showed that chatbots could address conspiracy theories racing across social media, challenging misinformation around beliefs in issues such as chemtrails and the flat Earth with a stream of reasonable facts in conversation. But two new studies suggest a disturbing flipside: The latest AI models are getting even better at persuading people at the expense o
Tunisia sentences opposition leader Abir Moussi to 12 years in jail
Dozens of opposition figures being targeted in nation once seen as beacon for democracy after sparking the Arab Spring.
Texas Business Reforms Show Shareholder Democracy Is Thriving
View our Texas Business Reforms Show Shareholder Democracy Is Thriving insight.
Political scientists launch the Berkeley Program on Finance and
Can finance serve democracy, or is it fated to play an adversarial role? UC Berkeley is launching a new initiative to investigate this question.The Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy will
Center for Politics hosts Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss the future of democracy
The event — with over 520 attendees — featured topics in Sanders’ book, “Fight Oligarchy."
Pita Limjaroenrat on the Future of Democracy
I was ousted from Thai politics. Here’s what that taught me about the state of democracy today.
No 10 to delay four England mayoral elections amid accusations of ‘cancelling democracy’
Ministers will argue that four newly created mayoralties need more time to complete reorganisation
Think the viral meme of that legislator is funny?
Political philosopher says rampant schadenfreude among electorate poses risk to democracy.