20+ hour, 34+ min ago   (612+ words) American democracy succeeds by trial and error. Our history is littered with flaws and mistakes, corrected and amended, re-broken, and fixed again, often thanks to citizen input. That is why local government – bottom up, grassroots democracy – provides the best opportunity…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (658+ words) As the right attacks mass participation head on, the center is telling the rest of us to pipe down while the elites are talking. Dylan is a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project, where she leads RDP’s Economic Media…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (635+ words) The Fresno City College Social Justice Center invited author and educator Melissa Dalton Bradford to discuss her new book “How to Save Democracy: Your Anti-Authoritarian Playbook” in the Old Administration Building on Sept. 9. During her talk, Bradford said she believes…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1674+ words) Por Jesús Del Toro Jesús Del Toro’s “40 Keys to Democracy in the United States” is a special editorial series created to inform and educate Latino communities about the U.S. democratic system and to guide and empower them in exercising…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (391+ words) Arte: La Raza con herramientas de IA. Crédito: Impremedia Por Jesús Del Toro The United States is built on the idea of democracy, and the struggles to establish, preserve, and expand the validity of democratic ideals are among the most…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (277+ words) Ideas Have Consequences is the title of a conservative classic published in 1948. In that best-selling book, Richard M. Weaver foresees the decline of the West due to a loss of faith in its governing ideals. Something parallel is going on today…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (481+ words) A supporter of Brazil's presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro holds a placard depicting Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes bearing the phrase "Perdeu, mane" ("You lost, fool") during a rally held on Independence Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 7, 2026....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (561+ words) The American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, Robert A. Dahl (1917−2014), left in his immense scientific writing opus considerable remarks on democracy. Here, I would like to summarise his theoretical approaches to democracy. 19th-century painting by…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (178+ words) The Declaration of Independence set the stage for the next evolution as it set forth the principle that the governed have the right and duty to free themselves from arbitrary and overbearing despots. Two aphorisms seem to me to capture…...