Our modern democracy has always been under attack, and no one ever knew. Democracy has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Since then, the system of democracy has undoubtedly evolved ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...

A majority of Americans worry this year’s general election will be tainted by fraud, according to a recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released earlier this month—an ominous indication of the state of ...

Given the tumultuous state of politics in the United States, it’s understandable that many people are asking themselves, “What is democracy?” By definition, democracy is a form of government that ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The second threat (or set of threats), which Leonhardt described as “chronic but also growing,” is subtler—the idea that ...

The Jan. 6 pillaging of the U.S. Capitol, continued denial of the 2020 presidential election results and actions of some state legislatures to control how elections are run have caused many Americans ...