To kick off his Democracy Day breakout session Youth and Democratic Erosion, SNF Agora Fellow Scott Warren asked a small group of first-year students how they feel about the current state of democracy ...

Donald Trump has said, several times in the week up to and including September 29’s presidential debate, that he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election in November ...

Now that the Fourth of July has come and gone, Americans begin a year of celebration and reflection as we prepare for next year’s semiquincentennial — 250 years since our Founding Fathers courageously ...

Dr. Erskine White, M.Div., Ed.D, is retiring this month after teaching American History for 27 years at the University School of Nashville. If what follows sounds politically partisan, it shouldn’t.

Polls tend to wind up screaming to us a lot of things we should already know, while also whispering about aspects of our daily life that we should find troubling. Take the most recent survey of ...

ATLANTA — The Carter Center, along with 12 other U.S. presidential organizations, on Thursday put forth a statement to "renew their commitment to fundamental principles of democracy." The other ...

The French-Italian writer Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) famously said: “Every nation gets the government it deserves.” This statement appears harsh in view of the many people around the globe ...

The ongoing attempt by GOP legislators in 43 states to curtail access to voting is the latest in a series of actions by Republican elites that seem designed to undermine our democratic system of ...

If there is one principle that is cardinal in the Constitution today it is the principle of equality, followed by that of equity and finally freedom or liberty. In the Bill of Rights, these principles ...

To the editor: In Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural address he said, “… it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government." Some of what he went on to say was: ...

Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said “accountability” is one of the principles of a “strong democracy.” The comment came the day after former President Donald Trump was ...