Our nation’s 250th anniversary challenges us to imagine and build a more inclusive and resilient democracy for the next generation and beyond. This first volume of the new Learning for Justice ...

Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.

new video loaded: Can the Courts Save American Democracy? transcript Emily Bazelon, a lawyer and writer, thinks the courts have pushed back against Trump in important ways. But ultimately, as she ...

Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril? Three hundred and sixty-five days after Donald Trump swore his oath of office and ...

The Supreme Court issued an election-related ruling Wednesday that led Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to accuse the majority, in essence, of failing to respect democracy. The ruling was about a ...

An undated photo shows prelates in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during the third session of the Second Vatican Council, in 1964. Credit: OSV News photo/Ernst Herb, KNA It is often said that the ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the close of 2025, many progressive ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...

Workers at a Ford plant in Michigan, 1920s. (Getty Images) The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American ...