(Original Caption) 5/31/29-London, England-Mr. J. Maynard Keynes, the famous economist pictured at his home in London, predicts that the Liberals will win eighty-five seats from the Conservatives, six ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Ken Block jokes that he could have been talking to me from the height of ...

The Fourth of July is our chance to reflect upon our nation’s genesis and its Founding Fathers, who brought their newly minted democracy onto the world stage. It is a participatory democracy. “We the ...

How did people across 24 nations rate the political environment in their country in 2023? In a word: poorly. Ratings of democracy are generally negative across the 24 countries surveyed. A median of ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

In order to break out of habitual ways of thinking, or to promote creativity, sometimes it is worth focusing on ideas or approaches that challenge and provoke you. This was the thinking that brought ...

Democracy does not always die with the sound of boots, bullets, or decrees. Sometimes it dies quietly, under the cover of ...