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The first order of business is to redouble every effort to preserve American democracy. If I may invoke Winston Churchill, this is not the end or the beginning of the end; it is the end of the ...

Mechanism design is all around us. Including in a democracy. After all, a democracy is the sum of its institutions and processes — and it is only as good as those structures. Thoughtful ...

Dr. Selk is a political scientist at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In this year of elections, when a full quarter of ...

He won for many reasons. One of them was that a formidable number of Americans, from different angles, said the state of democracy was a prime concern. The candidate they chose had campaigned ...

Even a non-math, non-electoral policy wonk like me can understand the perils of a system that potentially disenfranchises large swaths of the population, writes Cloe Axelson.

Democracy is alive. It’s always been messy. Democracy is like the shirt of a toddler after a day of Fourth of July events, soiled with ketchup, popsicles, sweat, slobber, dirt and grime, and perhaps a ...

We don’t just flip a switch and the American democracy is gone. It doesn’t work like that. We’re the only 248-year-old multiracial pluralistic democracy in the world. So, shall we keep it?

When we were younger, my friend Alaa Abd El Fattah and I didn’t know just how intimately prison, and state violence, would shape our lives.

The Coalition for Ann Arbor’s Future repeatedly argued the opposition was mischaracterizing what proponents saw as pro-democracy reforms. Godfrey said a “national epidemic of political lying ...

But like many others, I am drawn by a curiosity to understand the ideals of democracy that they preach across the world. For a country as polarised as the US is today, this election season has ...

Call me a dreamer, but I’m not too worried about the future of our democracy regardless of whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the presidential election Tuesday. I have no doubt there ...