Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit ...

Yet at year’s end, there’s reason for hope. The laws of political gravity have not been repealed. Abuse has been met with response. I want to tell you what the Brennan Center has been doing and what ...

After a year of new leadership, court fights, dramatic change to the federal government, and deep political division, where ...

What was intended to be a bottom‑up republic increasingly resembles a top‑down structure. More decisions are made far from ...

As we contemplate the daunting task of rebuilding American democracy, each of us has a role to play. We can all practice ...

Since his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has posed a serious threat to American democracy. From the start, he ...

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

Charles Barnes marches through downtown St. Louis carrying an American flag during the 'No Kings' protest on Saturday, June 15, 2025. Demonstrators made their way through downtown demanding the ...

The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

“There is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu ...

It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of the “color revolutions” in former Soviet Republics offers powerful ...

The public overwhelmingly opposes the genocide, but the political elites help keep it going. Something has to give. Members of Jewish Voice for Peace are led away after being arrested for occupying ...