At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is ...

About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.

The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality. Stephen Richer, an election official in Arizona, and Adam Kinzinger, a former ...

Our first democracy You’ve probably heard someone who’d rather overthrow the government than read a civics book say that “ America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.” ...

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A new book, “Tyranny of the Minority,” by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, argues that America’s Founding Fathers created a now-outdated system that allows a partisan minority in the US to ...

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“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” said conservative activist Jack Posobiec at the February 2024 meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference ...

The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality. Stephen Richer, an election official in Arizona, and Adam Kinzinger, a former ...

With each discussion and example in Hamid’s book, it was hard not to return as the reader to a belief that Hamid himself seemed reluctant to embrace or accept: democracy is authoritarianism.

How an insurrection, fake electors and a right-wing “stop the steal” movement overturned an election and led to the end of American democracy.