A new report calls the rejection of the 2020 election results by many in the Republican Party as an “historic turning point” for the United States. For the first time in its four years of compiling annual data on the state of democracy around the world, an international think tank added the United States to its […]
“Now is the time for leaders in all walks of life—for citizens of all political backgrounds and persuasions—to come to the aid of the republic.” Warning that the Republican Party—which “remains under the sway” of former President Donald Trump—poses a “serious danger” to U.S. democracy, a group of writers, academics, and political activists spanning the ideological […]
Democracy is “quite literally dying in the dark,” warned one commentator. of Wednesday morning, while much of the country slept, the Republican-dominated Texas House approved a heavily gerrymandered district map that critics have denounced as part of an anti-democratic and racist GOP power grab—one that right-wing lawmakers could try to replicate across the United States. At around 3:30 am local time, […]
America’s Founding Fathers were among the wealthiest people in the Colonies when they drafted and signed the Constitution, and that’s pretty much who they expected to continue to guide the young nation. “It was never meant to be a sort of direct democracy, where all Americans would get to cast a ballot on all issues,” says Andrew […]