A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017. Across that set of countries – ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

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Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

Democratic form of government has over the years been a fascination to mankind since the Greeks evolved it in a rudimentary form in the city state of Athens in the sixth century. Democracy as defined ...