Bernie Sanders denounces conservative politicians as “authoritarian,” yet he has repeatedly praised Communist leaders like ...

Joe host Joe Scarborough ripped the Trump administration for “ignoring” judicial pushback to immigration policies and slammed ...

Suppose that you’re walking down the street and you come to an intersection. There is a man standing there with his dog. You sidle up next to him and say, “Hey, nice dog!” Now suppose that the man ...

As he writes in his new book, The Challenges of Democracy, political philosophers of the past, whether the 18th-century “founding fathers” of the US constitution such as James Madison ...

Democracy demands open government. The people need to know what’s going on across local, state and federal governments in ...

In the Federalist, James Madison laid out the logic by which tyranny ... Daniel Carpenter is a professor of government at Harvard and author of Democracy by Petition. Paul Pierson and Eric ...

It’s “Sunshine Week”, a time when we celebrate one of the bedrocks of American democracy: Open government. It’s timed to ...