democracy

Among humankind’s many bad ideas, the monarchy was hardly the worst. And it was certainly one of the most inevitable. We humans have an inherent incli...

My friends have it wrong. I recently reached out to many of them about an effort to combat the intentional efforts by “big lie” candidates to take ove...

ALBANY (TNS)—DemocratsinNew Yorkare not a happy bunch at the moment, what with the finger-pointing, the accusations and recriminations, the in-fightin...

We all know what happens when a tree falls in an empty forest. What happens when a democracy emerges unscathed from a purported vile racist threat to ...

Chances are, deluded mass murderer Payton Gendron doesn't actually know any Black people to speak of. According to the 2020 census, his hometown of Co...

Editor’s note: This is an editorial from the Chicago Tribune, distributed by Tribune News Service. This editorial board long has supported a woman’s r...

A sweeping generalization is an overarching or overly broad statement or opinion in which a general idea or rule is applied too widely, without allowi...

A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...

What can sensible adults agree on regarding Kyle Rittenhouse, the latest young symbol on whom America can hang its devastating internal division and t...

Many people ask me how the United States can claim to promote human rights after its abandonment of Afghan women — and its inability to move China on ...

I recently received a newsletter from Congressman Tom Reed extolling his efforts to stand up for “election integrity” by demanding voter IDs. This is ...

President Joe Biden presents two essential values to the nation: unity and truth. Whether Americans accept them is, of course, another matter. Biden g...

I am not exactly sure why, but in the fall of 1963, when I entered fifth grade, it felt like achieving a milestone towards adulthood. Being a fifth-gr...

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, summoning American resilience to confront a historic conf...

Raise your hand if you are exhausted from the incessant political turmoil that continues to unfold in the United States. While almost everyone is hopi...

Death and destruction did not stop Congress from its mission to certify the election of the next president of the United States. Shell-shocked by what...

A mob riled up by a demagogue storming the seat of government and forcing elected leaders inside to flee is the stuff of the Third World. It was not p...

Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional. Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it ...