On the Saturday before Election Day this year, a coalition of scholars who study authoritarianism issued an open letter of warning titled, “How to Keep the Lights on in Democracies.” It began: ...

Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths ...

Vanessa Williamson, author of The Price of Democracy, discusses her argument that the history of American fights over fiscal ...

Keane (The New Despotism), a professor of politics at the University of Sydney, delivers a concise and informative history of democracy “as an unending process of humbling unconstrained power.” ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of... Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of civil rights progress ...

The Electoral College is back at the center of our national political conversation. The fact that Hillary Clinton received 2.7 million more popular votes in 2016 than Donald Trump and still lost the ...

While, as Benjamin Franklin quipped, it may be that nothing is certain but death and taxes, only the former can be considered the great equalizer. Death comes for us all, regardless of our social or ...

Alicia Cheng’s new book, ‘This Is What Democracy Looked Like,’ examines voting through a very specific lens: the ballot. The presidential election is mere weeks away, and ballots are being cast as we ...

In an extended interview, we speak with archeologist David Wengrow, who co-authored the new book “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” with the late anthropologist David Graeber. The ...

For more than two centuries, Americans have largely cast their votes on paper. Yet the paper trail of that long history is thin. That’s because U.S. law requires that ballots, a record-keeping ...