A coup toppled his government in 1948, and democracy would not reemerge in Venezuela for another decade. By then Betancourt ...

AI "tools can be exploited by people who want to make democracy more authoritarian," write Schneier and Sanders.

In the final installment of the “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series, Condoleezza Rice examined the sources of distrust in ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The war in Gaza has focused attention once again on the search for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The solution favored by ...

Five years ago, white plumes of tear gas arced through Hong Kong's humid air. Hundreds of thousands of angry protesters were on the streets, demanding their Beijing-appointed leader resign and calling ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Annual reports on the health of democracy this year reaffirmed an ongoing trend of decline, which has occurred alongside a less heralded but ...

Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the “assault on the rule of law” ...

More money, more organizing, more solidarity. That’s how philanthropy can and will rise in 2026 to meet this enormous moment in history. Deepak Bhargava is the president of the Freedom Together ...

Until fairly recently, that would have seemed like a peculiar question. But many experts on American history and political science say U.S. democracy is relatively young. By Amanda Taub How old were ...

In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...

With Election Day just around the corner, thoughts from historian Jon Meacham, whose new book chronicles the life and evolution of President Abraham Lincoln: He thought everything was over. It was the ...