Jason Stanley observes that philosophers since Plato have understood how tyrants come to power in free elections.

The legendary political scientist is very much alive, but liberal democracy is at risk.

To a person, everyone I talked with believed they were on the verge of victory—that Harris would defeat the “wannabe dictator ...

How an insurrection, fake electors and a right-wing “stop the steal” movement overturned an election and led to the end of American democracy.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama — until then a fairly unknown functionary in the US State Department — published an article that started a firestorm of debate. The title, an unassumingly simple question: ...

From the end of Jim Crow to the rise of wealth-dominated ... Why should unaccountable judges – not the regular political process – decide the kind of democracy we live in? This sophisticated book, ...