The most powerful defense against political violence is not found in civics textbooks, legislative policy or campaign speeches. It resides in our churches, synagogues, temples and mosques ...

The Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election, lost the Congress, and effectively forfeited any influence they had on the Supreme Court. Many have been wondering how something like this could have ...

The U.S. has long believed that unspecific laws threaten democracy. So why is the administration being so vague?

A large, peaceful crowd at the Illinois State Capitol shouted that statement, which was also featured on numerous signs ...

It’s time the Supreme Court intervened both in the matter of freebies given just before the elections and the kind of wild ...

Free and fair elections are the foundational pillars of any functional democracy. To secure this ideal, the Constitution of ...

In such a climate, activism is not an indulgence. It is the civic scaffolding that keeps a democracy from sagging under its own contradictions. When public money is borrowed, citizens must ask to what ...

Public activism is often dismissed as noise — hashtags that flare and fade, marches that make the evening news and then dissolve. But when citizens stay with the work beyond the first spark, activism ...

Creativity, the creative discovering of the genius of man ….ought to be restored its sacred significance. –Nicolai Berdyaev,  Salvation and ...

Here is my suggestion, one that may sound radical at first but is rooted in pure Nigerian logic: let the Senate evolve into a House of Lords, made up of our traditional rulers. The Obas, Emirs, Obis, ...

Our mainstream culture often reduces partisan rivals to caricatures. But in my experience no one is only their vote.

Under the Modi government, the welfare delivery is advertised as a personalised project of the Prime Minister.