Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, but that isn't the subject here: The authors identify two principal roots of what they deem modern representative democracy. First is the presence ...

What Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford describe in “The Left’s War on the Rule of Law” (op-ed, May 17) illustrates how social justice is meant to operate: outside of our governance structures. Within ...

Exit polling suggests that about a third of those who cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election viewed American democracy ...

It has of late become en vogue, at least in some circles, to claim that the United States, rather than a democracy is, in fact, a republic. This begs the question: What’s the difference? Recently, I ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

The organization “The General Strike” aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van der ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...