Venezuela’s road to democracy does not start or end with Trump’s extraction of Maduro, writes journalist Helena Carpio.

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

A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Eupen, Belgium About two dozen ...

On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, the Nigerian Senate made a decision that perfectly encapsulates everything broken about African democracy. While passing the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) ...

Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.

Despite the recent political and civic turmoil, Americans must recommit to the core tenets of democratic liberalism in order to ensure a free and open society, individual liberty, and equality under ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

Democracy is, at its core, a creative experiment. It asks us to imagine a collective future, to give shape to the aspirations of a people, and to continually rework what justice and equity look like ...

We need people willing to testify publicly, to challenge injustice face-to-face, to stand behind their words in public forums.

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

EUPEN, Belgium – About two dozen people met in a white stone parliament building in eastern Belgium on a recent Saturday. They held a lively debate over the region’s retirement policy and hashed out ...