Public policy is heavily shaped by interest groups and bureaucracy. The rich have the freedom to provide alternative perspectives.

The interdisciplinary character of the upcoming Peopling Politics symposium, Bringing the People Back In, reflects this ...

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Democracy is backsliding. Valery Perry joins us to discuss threats abroad—and here at home. With one in three global elections contested and turnout falling, democracy is in retreat. Valery Perry, ...

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No paid actors. No buses rolled in from Washington. Saturday’s “Hands Off” demonstration in Fort Wayne was not just a protest against the administration’s policies. It was a defense of democratic ...

Democracy proved to be a terrible campaign concept in November, but that hasn’t stopped Democrats’ musings. Speaking at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum earlier this month, former President Barack ...

Support and expertise for nascent and recovering democracies abroad can complement military and economic aid. The Trump administration has had a busy first nine months in office on the world stage.

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

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...

LAGOS – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted the practice of democracy in Africa, saying that what is obtainable is representative democracy where a few people will grab the common wealth.