UChicago political scientist Susan C. Stokes analyzes the current moment while offering solutions to a polarized public ...

The survey revealed that respect for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law topped the list of the bloc’s main ...

In cities powerfully shaped by racial capitalism and economic exclusion, communities have long fought to reclaim their futures through economic solidarity and cooperation. This has been the case ...

Books & the Arts / Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Nicholas Lemann Democracy ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The intrinsic benefits of democracy, including government accountability and personal freedoms, are acknowledged in many countries. Yet, average citizens and democracy advocates also ask, to what ...

This moment calls for Rhode Island to hold the line against policies that threaten economic security, civil rights, and democracy itself. To pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations, ...

For decades — or perhaps centuries — collapse has been underway: the fragmentation of social, economic, and political order; the hollowing-out of law at both domestic and international levels; and the ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

A coup toppled his government in 1948, and democracy would not reemerge in Venezuela for another decade. By then Betancourt had learned his lesson: He shared power with other major parties, a move ...