Senator Bernie Sanders has been holding public meetings about what he calls “Fighting Oligarchy.” There is much good about ...

What about Uruguay’s structure has led to success in maintaining democracy? What lessons can the country offer to the region ...

To protect democracy and counteract the allure of authoritarianism, reduce people's sense of fear and insecurity, psychology ...

Policy — either good or bad ... misinformation. For example, pardoning the nearly 1,600 people who took part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on live television, was rewriting history — with a black ...

An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people — typically, the very wealthy — holds most or all of the ...

Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.

Is America slipping from a democracy to an autocracy, an oligarchy or some combination? We need not dig too deeply in the annals of history to ... by the rich), for example. Some political ...

Democracy is in greater peril today than at any time in modern U.S. history. President Donald Trump ... Harvard must set an example for civil society by making a firm public defense of democracy.

If the meaning of “oligarchy” feels like a blur from history class, don’t worry — its definition ... Today, just 19% of Americans think the US is a good example of democracy.) Though the definition of ...

Now some say democracy in the US could be giving ... Below, we break down what an oligarchy is, using examples from history and the present. Then, we’ll summarize why some experts fear America ...

American democracy is in peril ... Perhaps the best recent example of personal corruption is Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez from New Jersey, who was found guilty of accepting gifts such ...

As the years without her lengthened, it came to seem like she might have retired for good. But then ... David Broza, whose history with ‘The Sixteenth Sheep” included, he told us, being ...