Civic education is needed to support democracy, from grade school into adulthood, so that people will recognize when things ...

Democracy rests on the premise that all citizens are equal ... and purged voter rolls using exacting criteria that effectively increase the procedural burden on voters to maintain their registration, ...

Today advocacy groups and consultants influence political parties more than voters and members. In The Great Retreat, ...

The judge's ruling is the first to broadly block federal prison officials from carrying out Trump's executive order targeting ...

Real political change in America doesn’t come from the top; it never has. It comes from the bottom, from ordinary people ...

Still, when crises erupt, even spin dictators often revert to more traditional tactics. Russia’s Putin has cracked down violently on protesters and jailed opposition leaders. Meanwhile, more brutal ...

Our government has stood the test of time and become so stable that we tend to forget Benjamin Franklin’s warning about ...

Former President Joe Biden struck an optimistic tone when discussing his cancer diagnosis for the first time Friday, saying, ...

Atlantic authors Kevin Cope and Mila Versteeg say Americans don’t generally brag about America’s ponderous, glacier ...