Liberty – Equality – Democracy: America and Americans are defined by their dedication to these founding principles–ideas that were fostered by the Enlightenment philosophers of the late 17 th – 18 th ...
Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the ...
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July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...
Across the nation, there appears only one topic on which voters universally agree: “The country is divided.” But divided over what? Republican versus Democratic values? The character or future vision ...
In 1961, the scholar and diplomat George F. Kennan observed that There is nothing in nature more egocentric than the embattled democracy. It soon becomes the victim of its own war propaganda. It then ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is no longer a democracy. At least, that's the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace, which ...
On many levels, the re-election of Donald Trump looks like an aberration, a singular event that stands outside the expected flow of history. After all, America has never elected a convicted felon as ...
The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” A poster on a wall in Margate, United Kingdom, showing ...
“As a fourteen-year-old boy getting my first job at the grocery store down the street I learned power relationship the first ...
Hungarians resoundingly rejected a would-be autocrat and got another lease on life for their democracy. Can we?