Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, ...

IDAHO FALLS — American democracy will be the topic under discussion Wednesday night in Idaho Falls as the Alturas Institute presents a conversation about the important role of history in preserving ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to look to our past for lessons on our future path to justice, economic security and stronger democracy everyone deserves. We see time and again that you cannot ...

On March 9, the Colorado State University Democracy Summit hosted a Colorado history panel featuring historians and ...

Is American democracy going to be OK? You hear this question asked regularly around the country these days. There is a national and worldwide narrative that American democracy is in persistent decline ...

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...

It’s a sign of our troubled times that when asked about the health of their democracies, millions of citizens curse politicians, complain about poor government performance, and express fears that ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

“Democracy, once taken for granted as an inalienable civic right … now seemed little more than a quaint historical memory amid universal bureaucratic rule of autocratic monarch, oligarchic group, or ...

For many travellers, the first clues about a country’s political system appear long before sightseeing begins. A portrait of a king in an airport, a presidential seal on immigration forms, or a ...

Model homes sit vacant in the center of a 750-home housing development where construction was halted November 20, 2008 in Rio Vista, California. Land and property ownership have colored American ...

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 ...