Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about pressing issues in legal education and society at large. Preservation Of Democracy Has Emerged As One Of The Most ...

Our political environment has become marked by claims about a particular party being for or against democracy. How do we tell who is telling the truth? Why does it matter that we preserve democracy? A ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

When American Public Television kicked off its Fall Marketplace conference Nov. 11 in Cleveland, CEO Jim Dunford interviewed Mark Updegrove, presidential historian for ABC News who also hosts the APT ...

David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in New York University’s department of politics and an affiliated professor in NYU School of Law. He is the author ...

Public debates about taxes are often framed as technical questions about budgets, deficits, or economic growth. But in The ...

It’s a sign of our troubled times that when asked about the health of their democracies, millions of citizens curse politicians, complain about poor government performance, and express fears that ...

The University of Gothenburg's latest report shows that the United States is no longer a liberal democracy, having experienced the most rapid executive aggrandizement in modern history, with 600 ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

Churches and their leaders from time immemorial have thought of themselves as the good guys in society, particularly due to their devotion to the important civic virtues of honesty, good faith and ...

Attendees at a Party at the Polls event hosted in partnership with the Milwaukee Bucks. At When We All Vote, we believe that our democracy is strongest when everyone has a voice. That belief fuels our ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...