Black History Month is an opportunity to look to our past for lessons on our future path to justice, economic security and stronger democracy everyone deserves. We see time and again that you cannot ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about pressing issues in legal education and society at large. Preservation Of Democracy Has Emerged As One Of The Most ...

Is American democracy going to be OK? You hear this question asked regularly around the country these days. There is a national and worldwide narrative that American democracy is in persistent decline ...

In The Confidence Trap David Runciman argues that when democracies respond to crises they are “caught between their impulse to precipitate action and their instinct to wait.” This in-between nature of ...

Every four years, the rhetoric surrounding recent presidential elections seems to boil down to “This is the most important election of our lifetime!” Well, 2024 is no different. The future of American ...

For many travellers, the first clues about a country’s political system appear long before sightseeing begins. A portrait of a king in an airport, a presidential seal on immigration forms, or a ...

An interesting e-mail about health care reform has been making the rounds over the past few weeks. It doesn’t provide any great insight into the bill it purports to analyze, H.R. 3200, or contain any ...