In his dank Budapest prison cell in the mid-1950s, my father imagined he heard Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Though no one ...

We talk first and then decide. There is wide agreement that the most important essay ever written about American democracy is ...

many voters do not believe that democracy is benefitting them or that the American political system is worth preserving. (Republicans also care about democracy for different reasons, believing ...

According to the International Court of Justice, Israel’s slaughter of the Gazan population is a genocide. Any of us who ...

“Whoever becomes the master of a city accustomed to freedom, and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed himself; ...

If we let ourselves become callous to others’ needs, we risk losing sight of democracy and the importance ... are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

Truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against an autocrat’s unrestrained exercise of power. At a time when ...

Columnist Elo Esalomi compares U.K. and U.S. political cultures in the wake of experiencing her first U.S. presidential ...

Brown will observe the 250th anniversary of the United States with Brown 2026, a multi-year initiative that offers public ...

You will never get your American democracy back once you lose morality and your civic laws. Our country is doomed, as there won’t be fair elections, honest, truthful news or journalists who are ...

Georgia is one of the most Western-leaning nations in the world — a country where in every survey, nearly to 90 percent of ...