China has a system that is described as socialism with Chinese characteristics. The USA should be described as a democracy with United States characteristics. The U.S. government often expresses the ...

Why do coups d’état happen? Is it that bad leadership pushes people to their boiling points, compelling them to take matters into their own hands? Or is it a lack of adequate preventative laws? Do ...

Insurrection. Partisanship running white hot. News media fanning the flames. "It is tempting to suggest that democracy is exploding at the seams," Sean Illing says. "But what we’re experiencing ...

Last week, President Biden gave a wide-ranging interview to John Harwood of ProPublica that touched on his presidency, the Republican Party and the present state and future status of American ...

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 ...

Is it defending democracy to convict the leader of the opposition party of 34 trumped-up (pun intended) felony charges in a kangaroo court where the judge (who legally should have been forced to ...

The question, then, is no longer whether the center can hold; it is whether centrism holds any meaning in today’s politics. The term made sense in the 20th century, which many understood to be an age ...

Democratic form of government has over the years been a fascination to mankind since the Greeks evolved it in a rudimentary form in the city state of Athens in the sixth century. Democracy as defined ...