As the United States nears its 250th anniversary, two historians of the world's longest-lasting democracies say the country's fate may depend on whether Americans can rediscover a declining civic ...

Being told she’s too young has never stopped Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs. She joined the Army at age 17 and was one of the first women to serve as a tank commander. Now, she’s 29 and running for a House ...

The United States is in a period with a "persistence of diminished democracy," according to a report that will be released on Tuesday. It's the third study released in the last week that concludes ...

Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69%) say they are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in their country. This share is higher than in most other high-income countries surveyed by Pew ...

The U.S. is experiencing a period of “persistence of diminished democracy,” according to a new report released on Tuesday. It's the third study released in March that concludes that U.S. democracy is ...

U.S. conservatives believe American democracy has abandoned its founding values and perceive their challenges to traditional government institutions and processes as an effort to restore those ...

A majority of registered voters believe the state of U.S. democracy is "weak" and many support election reforms they think would lessen political division in the country, including opening party ...

Richard North Patterson argues that citizens must use nonviolent activism to reclaim democracy from 'Trumpism.' ...

More than 100 countries around the world can be considered democracies, yet no two of them do democracy exactly the same way. Even so, the United States – which celebrates the 250th anniversary of the ...

The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights presents an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it. Demonstrators march into downtown Chicago protesting the ...

Nearly seven months after the U.S. toppled Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the first formal negotiations intended to steer the country toward democracy are kicking off Saturday—without the ...