USA TODAY: What can be done to strengthen democracy? TROY: The president is stepping in where Congress has created a vacuum. Going forward, it would be better if Congress could do its job.

OpEd: The inalienable rights documented in the Declaration of Independence are under increasing attack from the Trump ...

Social trust is crucial for capitalism and vibrant democracies. And when those systems weaken, as they are now, it’s calling ...

Voting is how we preserve democracy. Today, voting is more important than ever in the politically charged environment of election deniers and conspiracy theorists who aim to threaten and ...

The true threat to democracy today is not what–or more specifically who–the media elite say it is. Our fragile republic functions best when citizens are well-informed, ...

This is what democracy in America today has come to. A miserable prospect indeed, but there are silver clouds. At least this time, no one will think that, ...

Today, of course, despair is back in style. The percentage of people who say that living in a democracy is “essential” has declined, and polls show rising support for nondemocratic forms of ...

It is easy to be depressed today about democracy’s prospects. Promising new democracies in Hungary, Poland, Turkey and elsewhere have slid toward authoritarianism, and longstanding democracies ...

Let’s start with arguments about “resurgent authoritarianism.” Empirically, the evidence for this is thin. The number of democracies today remains close to its all-time high: There were 11 ...