Rachel Maddow outlines Donald Trump's intention as an authoritarian to consolidate the power of the United States government ...

A major political storm set off by a bitter feud between the Philippine president and the vice president is testing an Asian ...

Mr. Trump, from the start of his first political campaign, began to unleash on an industrial scale the very worst of all ...

Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.

More than that, the nature of his winning coalition showed how the American electoral order tends to rebalance itself with ...

Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration for the job of Attorney General was the first major setback for Donald Trump’s ...

A secure election system relies on accurate and up-to-date voter rolls that reflect only eligible Maryland voters. Many may ...

Rutgers University is launching a “Democracy Lab” to promote civil discourse and political participation, school officials ...

In North Carolina, it has been a hard week for democracy.

Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai took the stand in his own defense this week in a landmark national security trial in Hong ...

Night Is Not Eternal,” which follows the Cuban activist Rosa María Payá, is the rare nuanced political documentary that is ...

More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on ...