In the first of three analyses, North Carolinians are united on the importance of certain rights and liberties, but the principle of citizenship significantly divides partisans SALISBURY — As the ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van der ...

Now that the Fourth of July has come and gone, Americans begin a year of celebration and reflection as we prepare for next year’s semiquincentennial — 250 years since our Founding Fathers courageously ...

Is it possible, at this deeply ideologically divided time, to articulate a set of principles of American constitutional democracy that those across the political spectrum can agree upon? This was our ...

Next year, the United States will observe the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. To begin a year of celebration, Donald Trump appeared at the Iowa State Fairground in early July.

In a recent editorial, John Hall suggests that religion is an obstacle to American democracy — a relic of “magical thinking” that breeds conflict, division, and impedes progress, driven by modern ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” ...

The bulwarks of self-government have given way under multiple MAGA putsches. Instead of pledging to protect our democracy, Democrats need a plan to restore it Protesters carry a coffin symbolizing the ...

Is it possible, at this deeply ideologically divided time, to articulate a set of principles of American constitutional democracy that those across the political spectrum can agree upon? This was our ...