See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. From county commissioner to U.S. Senate, election deniers are on the ...

Americans learned a lot about government – especially that once-obscure process of impeachment – in the past year. But over time we’ve lost ground when it comes to understanding and embracing our ...

Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a ...

Derrick Darby, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, is a co-author of “The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice.” He writes about inequality, ...

A Texas A&M professor offers a textbook under a reading list for their course that rips former President Trump. The "Basics of Democracy" textbook is assigned in a political science class facilitated ...

Republicans are systematically eroding the basic civil rights of the American people. As we are seeing in other countries that are experiencing what experts describe as “democratic backsliding,” ...

Just a brief reminder: When our system of government was in its infancy, our forefathers forged a constitution to be designed on a system of checks and balances — thus a Senate, a House and the ...

Senate Republicans recently voted against bringing a sweeping democracy reform bill to the floor for debate. The result was no surprise. Nor were the arguments made by the few Republicans who spoke ...