"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...

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 ...

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The 200-year history of democracy, told through an animated time-lapsed map showing how government systems have evolved over ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

When Sen. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln faced off in a debate in Peoria, Illinois, in 1854, the issue tearing apart the nation was slavery. A central issue was whether slavery would be permitted ...

In 1941, at the dedication of his presidential library, Franklin D. Roosevelt clearly articulated why the nation’s archives and presidential-library system are so vital to our democracy. “To bring ...

When Liz Truss took power last week in London, she became the United Kingdom's fourth prime minister in six years. In Israel, voters are about to hold their fifth election in less than four years. And ...

President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

David, do you think that the Democrats are making a coherent, resonant argument as to why they are holding the line here? DAVID BROOKS, NEW YORK TIMES: I think it's OK. I mean, they're emphasizing the ...