The Brookings Institute Democracy Playbook 2025 identifies “seven foundational pillars — such as protecting elections and rule of law, combating corruption, and countering disinformation — as ...

Benjamin Franklin warned that it would be hard to maintain our Republic. This 4th of July, let's all pledge to fight ...

About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

Ashby is making history. The Ashby Free Public Library has been selected as the only Central Massachusetts stop for the ...

The Consulate General of the Republic of Turkiye in Karachi on Tuesday held a solemn commemoration ceremony marking July 15 - Democracy and National Unity Day, remembering the victims and honoring the ...

Our Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of colonial rule and forged a new democratic nation, a shining city on the hill. The ...

On Dec. 3, Yoon declared in a televised speech to the nation that he was establishing a state of martial law. Specifically, ...

Democracy Day, marking end of military rule and swearing-in of a civilian president, was originally celebrated on May 29, 1999. Nineteen years later, on June 5, 2018, President Buhari declared ...

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country ...