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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...