Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who and what they were voting for,” adding that few people ...

When people feel unsafe, powerless, or unseen, democracy becomes harder to sustain. Its resilience begins with the ...

On March 6, 2025, Axios reported that the State Department had launched a new social media surveillance program called “Catch and Revoke.” The intended goal of this program was to use artificial ...

During a 2017 Meet the Press interview, then-Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway used the now-infamous phrase “alternative facts” to describe a false statement. The phrase was one of the early ...

“Vox populi, vox Dei” — the voice of the people is the voice of God. In theory, American democracy is built on a system in which citizens, regardless of wealth or status, can all steer the course of ...

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we ...

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 ...

What Does It Mean to Be Madisonian? It has been commonplace for generations to refer to the constitutional system as Madisonian—a concept that can be a good aspect or a bad one, depending on one’s ...

What explains this behavioral disconnect on the part of voters? There are several theories I propose to analyze. Ignorance theory One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who ...