President Biden delivered his farewell address on Wednesday from the Oval Office. In it, he discussed the concentration of power and wealth and how it causes distrust and division in democracy.

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Mr. Schmemann is a member of the editorial board. Democracy, it is often heard these days, is in crisis. The election of Donald Trump and news of political turmoil in many other democracies has ...

It will take a redistribution of wealth and resources and a restructuring of our nation, but the alternative is terrifying.

That's a problem for democracy in the long run ... And there's been, as in many of these cases, a lot of background. There's been a ballot measure there already that specifies some kind of ...

Biden started the day with pardons. Trump finished with many more. Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons are a valid use of pardon power. But they break new ground as a shield for those the president ...

(AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, background second right, former U.N. head Kofi Annan, background right, and Graca Machel, the wife of former South African ...

So why is democracy so bad? And why would having a ... I find the depth of background information to be obfuscating rather than illuminating. But —” “How can I change that?

We look to the address not for policy or ideology but for national self-understanding, an insight into the patriotism that undergirds our democracy. In the MAGA era of American politics ...

Representative democracy is a system wherein citizens ... no explanatory notes or background papers were provided, limiting citizens’ understanding of the proposal’s scope and challenges.

The contrast is stark between the peace that should mark the cornerstone of democracy and the violence that tried to shatter it. January 6, 2021, stands as a vivid reminder of how close America came ...

Democracy. Free and fair elections. Trump has succeeded enough to know that his toxic model of politics works on a sizable chunk of the American electorate. In his second term, expect Trump to ...