About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

But the media, textbooks, even human rights organizations choose to propagate the idealistic version and claim as an article of faith that the United States does not just practice democracy, but ...

It’s hardly surprising that we haven’t yet perfected our system of government. Societies have been practicing democracy for a very short time relative to human history, and we’re still ...

The Constitution also gives the states broad powers to regulate and run national elections. State legislatures have used ...

A new book, “Tyranny of the Minority,” by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, argues that America’s Founding Fathers created a now-outdated system that allows a partisan minority in the US to ...