Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

One day after the Supreme Court stripped federal protections against racially discriminatory voting maps, the longtime ...

Sadre Alam went to war for India. Suprabuddha Sen’s grandfather illustrated its first constitution. For decades, both men ...

Campaigners behind an effort called Respect MO Voters said they turned in more than 362,000 signatures to force a statewide ...

So it was for the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 legislation that protected Black suffrage by neutralizing voter suppression in ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is ...

The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily ...

Floridians will decide whether a man who tried to upend democracy can help lead one. In Wisconsin, Harry Wait said he set out to expose the potential for voter fraud. He ordered mail ballots in the ...

Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodríguez and the ruling PSUV party have taken a series of modest but meaningful steps to ...

Three-quarters of U.S. adults say the future of democracy faces a serious threat, according to a survey. The latest poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist, shows that when asked if they see a “serious threat” ...

But like other Black children in Virginia during the Jim Crow era, she was forced to learn in an overcrowded, dilapidated ...