Democracy isn’t collapsing from single blows. It is being chipped away—internally and externally. To survive, it requires ...

When institutions feel biased, many people start to prefer ferocious partisans to neutral arbiters.

Nwanevu makes three main claims: “that democracy is good, that America is not a democracy, and that America should become a ...

Here are the words that leave average Americans cold — and the language that could connect them to the billion-dollar fight to strengthen the country.

It is not. Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those ...

Every policy pronouncement from Washington or your state capital carries an implicit promise: Government can deliver what it pledges. Yet when systems collapse under their own complexity — requiring ...

In his first book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding”, journalist Osita Nwanevu argues that the way out of Trump’s authoritarian morass begins with ...

Sri Lanka’s 2024 elections have fast-tracked reforms that began after the country’s 2022 economic crisis, when mass protests ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The Trump administration has enabled a small network of high-tech oligarchs to determine a vast ...