Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

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The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

The Constitution requires redistricting after each census, but doesn’t dictate how the districts are to be drawn. This leaves ...

Floridians will decide whether a man who tried to upend democracy can help lead one. In Wisconsin, Harry Wait said he set out to expose the potential for voter fraud. He ordered mail ballots in the ...

California's grotesque level of income and wealth inequality is an issue that we can no longer ignore and that we must ...

Something has gone wrong in American politics. The Republican Party I once knew was the party of Abraham Lincoln, who fought to hold a nation together. It was the party of Dwight Eisenhower, who ...

WIRED sat down with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman to talk politics, AI, and the future of media. A documentary about her rise hits theaters today. The camera follows as she weaves through a ...

“This election has clearly shown that West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala ousted governments that had one thing in common, ...