Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone ...

Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...

Here are the words that leave average Americans cold — and the language that could connect them to the billion-dollar fight to strengthen the country.

The United States is a representative democracy, meaning our government officials are elected by citizens to represent their interests in government. A key indicator of a healthy democracy is one ...

Many American universities offer a course entitled History of Civilization. In that curriculum one finds a description of the evolution of what is termed western (European) thought and history from ...

Saddam Hussein was a brutal thug who terrorized his own people. He tortured those who disagreed with him and wasn?t afraid to use chemical weapons. He ruled with a strong fist without accountability ...

A nationally representative poll designed to gauge Gen Z’s attitude toward democracy contradicts a popularly held belief that the generation born roughly between 1997 and 2012 doesn’t care about it at ...