“I think a lot of people have observed that the crisis of democracy and crisis in Christianity have come about at the same time, and they seem to be fueling each other,” says Rauch.

But for those looking for some glimmer of hope, it’s also true that it’s likely too early to be so pessimistic about the prospect of American democracy’s survival. There are clear signs that ...

Plus, how the courts, Congress, and ordinary citizens might course-correct American democracy. Julius Caesar pressured the Senate, won popular support by fomenting class warfare, and sported a ...

The biggest change came from Bangladesh, which dropped 25 places. Rebuilding democracy there will be an enormous task after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, the country’s longtime autocratic ruler.

For at least two reasons. One is the fact that a republic is a subset of democracy, which renders the argument wrong both factually and logically. Further, most people who make that argument cite ...

An even greater danger may lie in the shambolic nature of his policymaking. Democracy may die in darkness. It may die in despotism. Under Trump, it’s just as liable to die in dumbness.

Last October, two-thirds of Americans said the erosion of democracy over the next decade was the nation’s most pressing threat. It took just a few days into his second presidency for Donald ...

He attempted so violent a power grab that the institutional immune system tasked with protecting Brazil’s democracy was shocked into overdrive. The U.S. might have done the same thing.

The initiative will attempt to connect Californians directly with government officials in times of disaster and allow them to express their concerns about matters affecting their day-to-day lives.

And if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy." ...

It doesn’t need loyal militias on the streets. All it takes for the world’s greatest democracy to fall is to fire those who believe in doing their job. It’s just one month into Donald Trump ...

Professor Brooke Harrington joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to break down how tech dynamics can distort democracy, along with Prof. Jason Johnson. Harrington warns of a corporate "hostile takeover" of ...