From ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance’ by the Center for Cartoon Studies Credit: Drawings by Dan Nott and Kevin Czap This year’s Vermont Humanities fall conference — ...

That's how you help democracy work for the people who are defending it, but also the people who are affected by it.” ...

German civil society leaders, including women who lived through World War II, issue a rare and urgent message to Americans. Drawing parallels to 1930s Germany, they warn that democracy can collapse ...

Chile is a democracy that fell into dictatorship for nearly two decades. What were the warning signs? What the U.S. can learn from the fall of democracy in Chile On September 11th, 1973, Chile’s ...

The nation’s top economic statistician was fired. Central bank independence is being undermined. The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.

Mr. Sumption, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Britain, is the author of “The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law.” As an observer of democracies and a constitutional lawyer in Britain ...

George Orwell’s work “1984” has always been fascinating as it delves deeper into the relationship between truth, facts, manipulation and societal control in a totalitarian society. It exposes how ...