Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and ...

Sadre Alam went to war for India. Suprabuddha Sen’s grandfather illustrated its first constitution. For decades, both men ...

Is the US a democracy or a republic? That’s a misleading question, writes a historian of early America. The values of ...

U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro and Jim Himes held a hearing in New Haven to discuss the SAVE America Act and the Supreme Court's VRA ...

The Constitution requires redistricting after each census, but doesn’t dictate how the districts are to be drawn. This leaves ...

AI is changing what it means to be a democratic citizen. Here’s how we can harness it for good. Every few centuries, changes ...

The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily ...

Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

Plus: The Pentagon has struck sweeping AI deals for classified work. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday ...

One day after the Supreme Court stripped federal protections against racially discriminatory voting maps, the longtime ...