Mercyhurst University professor and political science department chair Joseph Morris views a particular course as the most important he teaches. His Introduction to American Government class is an ...

The United States, once the self-styled torchbearer of democracy, is now teetering on the edge of oligarchy—a system where ...

For the last 10 years, we’ve been hearing that President Donald Trump will preside over the end of democracy in America. In liberal circles, that assertion is often accepted as fact. For many, the ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan speaks with Trump supporters rejecting President Biden's "protecting democracy" platform by saying the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy. "America's not a democracy, it's a ...

In the months leading up to the 2020 election, some of the most iconic brands and business leaders took what was then an unprecedented step for corporate America. This committed effort to support ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat, wrote as a friend of democracy in America, albeit one with misgivings for its future. His insights on the nascent democratic society he visited in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Voices and Votes: Democracy in America exhibit from the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) will be making its next stop on Staten Island and will be on view at ...