They believe that there is a cultural schism in America, with good, God-fearing people like themselves on one side and the ...

Jefferson Cowie: My nightmare is that fascism comes to America, but it’s marching under the banner of freedom. Applebaum: We talked about the use of violence and intimidation in politics. Stephen ...

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of ...

More and more Americans are turning against democracy. According to a 2023 survey from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, 24% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans agree with the statement, ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora See more of our coverage ...

About the author: William Priest is vice chair of TD Wealth and founder of Epoch Investment Partners. He co-authored Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order with David Roche and Alex ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms. This has ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Washington Post op–ed writer Theodore R. Johnson discusses his new book —- "If We Are Brave, Essay from Black Americana" — an examination of democracy, race and Black voters in the United States.