For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

At a time when public discourse often feels fragmented, dialogue and deliberation have become essential tools for building trust, bridging divides and fostering community resilience. Democracy ...

Although deliberation and democracy are usually found together, they are distinct phenomena. Democracy involves the inclusion of individuals in matters that affect them through distributions of ...

When we are troubled, we talk to a friend, and sort out our problems. Similarly, members of a deliberative community have to keep a conversation going to resolve issues. Elections are but one ...

There was very little deliberation in what was supposed to be an exercise in deliberative democracy on Tuesday, as the ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) likened President Trump’s onslaught of executive action to a “blitzkrieg” whose ultimate goal is ...

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the article is titled “Now is the Time for ‘Deliberative Democracy.’” Sengoku, who later served as chief Cabinet secretary under the Democratic Party government, originally contributed the ...