5+ hour, 59+ min ago   (207+ words) Our Constitution was not the product of one person or one group, but public trust in George Washington helped with ratification...

22+ hour, 8+ min 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…...

22+ hour, 29+ min 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, 10+ hour ago   (20+ words) A very interesting article by my colleague Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford Law, Hoover) in the City Journal; in addition to......

3+ day, 1+ 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…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (350+ words) “Shouldn’t the community have some say in this before it’s just decided for us?” I saw that question in a comment this week and have been thinking about it ever since. Because yes. Of course, the community should have a…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (754+ words) It can be difficult to grasp authoritarianism because it rarely arrives all at once. Instead, it often emerges through a series of actions that may seem disconnected on the surface: attacks on scientists who tell inconvenient truths, efforts to restrict…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (85+ words) AS/COA Why a Shield for Democracy in the Americas is Under Strain The OAS Democratic Charter remains a worthy bulwark against authoritarianism in the hemisphere. For the first time in a generation, democracy is considered the best form of…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (717+ words) It’s one thing to issue a Declaration of Independence, but quite another to stand up a working government....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (335+ words) 3.5% is a data point that has become popular among people who want to build a movement to defeat authoritarianism and reconstruct democracy in the United States. It comes from great research by Erica Chenowith at Harvard University on nonviolent movements…...