The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy. This piece is excerpted from the author’s The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few weeks ago, President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump went head-to-head, and any objective viewer would admit ...

When Frank Wisner, the seasoned U.S. diplomat and envoy of President Obama, met with Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday, Feb. 1, the scene must have been familiar to both men. For 30 years, American diplomats ...

Yordanos Eyoel founded Keseb to build up a transnational civil society ecosystem for learning, collaboration, and innovation to advance inclusive and resilient democracies. Through network building, ...

Across Africa, democracy is being tested – by rising authoritarianism and military coups as well as a growing disconnect between citizens and the institutions meant to represent them. The latest ...

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While almost two-thirds of young people in the U.S. support democracy, almost a third view it skeptically and are more inclined to accept authoritarianism, according to a new report on attitudes of ...

There were two recipients of the 2024 Democracy Works Award from the League of Women Voters of Woodland for their efforts to inspire political and individual change. Brown Issues and newly elected ...

We are social beings. So, within every group, decisions must be made about how to live together, preserving wellbeing and relations with others. Historically, those decisions were made by tribal ...

Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically be solved: Why has finance capitalism left ...