After the 2020 election, some states started to become what Grumbach calls “laboratories of democratic backsliding,” in his State Democracy Index, which tracks developments at the state level ...

Occasionally I run across an interesting way to combine ideas into a single number. Often such efforts can be a distraction ...

In Aristotelian terms, democracy is also a corrupt form of government in which the majority uses its power to abuse ...

Capitol Police will stand guard over the citadel of our democracy. The vice president of the United States, faithful to her duty under our Constitution, will preside over the certification of her ...