Is the US a democracy or a republic? That’s a misleading question, writes a historian of early America. The values of ...

How do nations thrive? Political scientist Michael Mazarr analyzes the qualities of democracy. Many democracies around the world are under strain, leading to a backward movement for many governments ...

I once had the good fortune to be engaged to teach political science 101 at the University of Colorado in Denver. Political “science” is a misnomer. It has no objective criteria or standards like ...

Veteran director Rob Reiner is worried America is one year away from becoming a hellish “full-on autocracy” under President Donald Trump — and he said it is the media and Hollywood’s “job” to educate ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...