2024 will be the biggest voting year in history. Some 4.2 billion people, or more than half of humanity, live in the 76 countries that are scheduled to hold elections. That question may sound cynical.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday that people around the world have "questions about our democracy" following the attempted assassination of former President Trump over the weekend ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

When American Public Television kicked off its Fall Marketplace conference Nov. 11 in Cleveland, CEO Jim Dunford interviewed Mark Updegrove, presidential historian for ABC News who also hosts the APT ...

"Which of the following is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution?" Right to public education Right to health care Right to trial by a jury Right to vote The above ...

As the first two episodes of “The 1619 Project” make dramatically clear, “the relentless buying, selling, insuring, and financing” of Black people “would help make Wall Street and New York City the ...

Luke J. Matthews received funding for this research from University of Auckland (NZ). Quentin Douglas Atkinson received funding for this research from Royal Society Te Apārangi. Thanos Kyritsis ...

Russia’s struggle with democracy is deeply rooted in its geography, history, political culture, and centuries-old power ...

In this busy year of national elections around the world, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election watchers from Ghana, Venezuela and Georgia about how democracy is being challenged where they are. 2024 ...

When Liz Truss took power last week in London, she became the United Kingdom's fourth prime minister in six years. In Israel, voters are about to hold their fifth election in less than four years. And ...

The title of Olivier Zunz’s biography of Alexis de Tocqueville—“The Man Who Understood Democracy”—would appear to be a direct appeal to readers who believe democracy is, to use one popular formulation ...

Today is Election Day. We implore our readers to make their voices heard at the ballot box and help their neighbors shape a government by and for the people. Voting is the sacred right and ...