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

He was an anti-communist dissident, and has become a deep skeptic of liberal democracy. Legutko begins the book by wondering why ... sooner or later they will end in the dustbin of history.

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

In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...

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

OPINION: How a violent insurrection, a fake slate of electors and a right-wing “stop-the-steal” movement overturned an ...

It was very popular in colonial America. It tells the story of the end of the Roman Republic, a democracy in its time, which was destroyed by a dictator, Julius Caesar. Pomerantsev: So basically ...

If Democrats win on November 5, they are committed to reversing central tenets of American sovereignty, starting with border ...

His direct threat to try to end or suspend the Constitution was largely a one-off. But the 2024 campaign was thick with his ...

Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reëlection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...

And for Black people, it was the end of democracy. Interestingly enough ... The Unwhitewashed Story of America is available everywhere books are sold.