Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

Despite the recent political and civic turmoil, Americans must recommit to the core tenets of democratic liberalism in order ...

My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the re-election of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era, that the phase of history that ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...

In 2023, David P. Gushee published Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies. Gushee’s diagnosis was familiar – that conservative and fundamentalist White Christian movements in America and ...

America is a liberal democracy. Its greatest blessing is freedom, the right to live and act in accordance with one’s conscience. This freedom unleashes boundless energy and creativity, and, along with ...

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

It was 1935, and Lawrence Dennis was sure that fascism was coming to America. He couldn’t wait. Dennis, a diplomat turned public intellectual, had just published an article in a leading political ...

Well, it's that time of year, you know, the swashbuckling, teeth-grinding, fist-clenching, time of campaign season. In less than two months, we, the people, can have our voices heard by the way we ...

Nepal, Feb. 27 -- The purple ink in the voter's finger is the accomplishment of years of struggle, it is the quiet residue of ...