Of course, there is much more than just those three steps to saving a democracy. In the Democracy Playbook, we lay out four ...

The morning after Trump’s inauguration, I woke up crying. Thoughts about what this country was becoming—and what it surely ...

Researchers find unexpected cure for political polarization in couples therapy techniques In a nutshell Researchers found that techniques from marriage counseling, when applied to political divisions, ...

These promotional efforts have continued even though American democracy is far from a finished product and has always suffered from a number of obvious design flaws: elections won by candidates who ...

For example, a June 2024 survey by the Pew Research Center reports a steep decline in satisfaction with American democracy since 2021. In that study, 68% of the respondents said they were ...

Republicans are seeking to prevent a duly elected state Supreme Court justice from taking her seat. If they succeed, election ...

On January 20, 2025, as Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, the nation reached a ...

Democracy is celebrated as a system of governance ... serving as a global model of self-government. Yet today, the American experiment faces profound challenges. Many citizens lack a fundamental ...

Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit that led to a temporary hold on the effort to strip funding for nonprofits and educational ...

We look to the address not for policy or ideology but for national self-understanding, an insight into the patriotism that undergirds our democracy. In the MAGA era of American politics ...