We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge (schools, legacy media, universities and experts) is at an all-time low, and blatant liars are drawing ...

What was intended to be a bottom‑up republic increasingly resembles a top‑down structure. More decisions are made far from ...

MINOT — I'm not a fan of democracy so much as I hate the alternatives. That's heresy, I know. In America, we're taught to love democracy — vox populi, vox dei, and all that jazz. And sure, in the ...

Just days before the presidential election, U.S. political divisions are bitter and deep, and polarization seems like a permanent condition. But a new approach developed by UC Berkeley researchers ...

The case is reminiscent of civil rights battles in a long-ago era: Alabama’s Republican lawmakers, drawing seven new congressional districts in 2021, split the state’s broad “Black belt” among four ...

Matthew Wilson is affiliated with the Varieties of Democracy Institute (https://v-dem.net/about/v-dem-institute/scholars-and-staff/). The surveys have sounded alarms ...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on "FOX News Sunday" that EU countries and Ukraine's Zelensky say they are fighting for "freedom and democracy," but, "when we actually look at ...

Taiwan renews its emphasis on values-based diplomacy, pioneered by former president Chen Shui-bian, in an attempt to make themselves an attractive alternative to China for alliances and trade ...

Representative democracy is based on a fundamental set of values — power is derived from the people through republican (representative) government. The “Office of Citizen” is the highest office in the ...

Re: Deborah “Deb” Baber’s April 3 letter, “Keeping artwork out of election”: For some, confabulation of processes and programs is a convenient way to throw knives. The result of my fellow American’s ...