Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fabric of American social life is unraveling at an alarming rate. As we retreat into isolation, our politics are becoming a ...

The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in ...

The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of free and fair elections to select representatives ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

Progressives have long sought to transform the United States into a Scandinavian-style social democracy. New York City offers a plausible demonstration of what that might look like—and it’s not an ...

America's social fabric is unraveling due to increasing social isolation and loneliness, leading to negative political and civic consequences. This isolation breeds distrust, polarization, and ...