Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently tweeted that the US is not a pure democracy. REUTERS Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has been tweeting some interesting things. During this week’s vice-presidential debate, Lee ...

In this busy year of national elections around the world, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election watchers from Ghana, Venezuela and Georgia about how democracy is being challenged where they are. 2024 ...

Alas, most ideas about "fixing democracy’s problems” seem narrow, self-serving or incremental: abolish the Electoral College so the popular vote always prevails; end gerrymandered voting districts, so ...

Sometimes charismatic people don’t know their own strength. And sometimes they do. In private, charismatic people light up a room and make each person feel beloved. In public life, they’re the ones ...

This essay is adapted from "Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society," by Michael J. Thompson and Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, published by Prometheus Books. In ...

Susan Bellows, Senior Producer of WGBH's American Experience, reflects on the key role historical documentaries play in our modern democracy ahead of the premiere of the series' new film, McCarthy. We ...

Brexit may well become a textbook example of the damage that a referendum can wreak on parliamentary democracy. To understand what a referendum is, one need only look at Tarrenz, a mountain village in ...

"We didn’t just want to view Weimar from its ending,” exhibition curator Simone Erpel says Deutsches Historisches Museum/David von Becker When you think of the Weimar Republic, you likely envision a ...

Indonesia held its first direct presidential election in July 2004, and it was immediately classified as one of the largest ever in world history: 121 million Indonesians voted in the initial round, ...

To students of political science no living man stands less in need of an introduction than James Bryee. His name on the title-page of any book is a sufficient warranty, for there is no scholar in any ...