Ron Klain, right, the chief of staff for President Biden, during a 2014 meeting with President Barack Obama. Five years ago, Mr. Klain wrote an essay on the threat of pandemics for Democracy magazine.

The machinery of American democracy worked this year. But it is fragile and under threat. This was the democracy-by-mail election: About 60 million people put their ballots in a mailbox or a drop ...

A month before this Independence Day, a group of 100 scholars warned about “the recent deterioration of U.S. democracy.” America has been covering this topic from all angles; here are ...

Religion can’t solve every problem facing our democracy, but maybe, if we step into the mystery, it can help. Richard Just is the editor of The Washington Post Magazine. Design by Christian Font ...

That we are not a democracy is a harsh reality we must recognize, confront, and change—irrespective of what the founders did or did not intend. The world of 2020 bears little resemblance to that of ...

We find ourselves at "an all-hands on deck moment for American democracy." Those are the words of Lilliana Mason, who knows of what she speaks.Mason, who recently joined the faculty at the ...

Indeed, we tend to equate democracy with voting—the most tangible way representative democracy is enacted and a critical step in choosing the public servants who make decisions on our behalf. Beyond ...

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At the Bigelow Middle School, Andrew Swan springs the “opposite of democracy” question on a different class he’s teaching this day. “Monarchy,” pipes up Clayton Lee, 14. “Kings and queens.

From Good-old Democracy to Rough Democracy, ca. 1970-2020.” Nolte was the invited scholar for the event that was jointly organized by the University of Colorado Boulder Program in Jewish Studies , the ...

‘Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil,’ he says, ‘until it founds and luxuriously grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been ...