Democracy

In his farewell address, a weary President Biden issues an essential warning.

An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up with ideas.

After President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered martial law, the legislature voted to impeach him. But it could take months to remove him from office, and uncertainties remain.

Two leading political scientists explain why voters failed to defend democracy: We never do.

The observance of defeat, especially in an election, is often all that keeps a state from tipping into violence.

Nicolás Maduro’s claim to have won the Presidential election has further inflamed the nation’s contest between democracy and authoritarianism.

Eighty years ago, Americans embraced a new definition of their common faith. “The spirit of liberty,” a then little-known judge said, “is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”

Months after the election, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s path to taking office remains uncertain.

Once a top Republican, Cheney is calling out her former colleagues in Congress—including Speaker Mike Johnson—for “enabling” a would-be dictator.

Jelani Cobb, Jill Lepore, and Evan Osnos on the precarious state of American democracy and why—yet again—we risk losing it in the upcoming Presidential election.

The country legend finds freedom in her first venture into rock. Plus, Jill Lepore, Jelani Cobb, and Evan Osnos on how American democracy got so precarious.

The former Vice-President revisits his early advocacy for the environment, assesses the impact of Elon Musk, and explains his optimism about two existential crises.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

In recent months, authorities have raided offices of press outlets publishing critical reports on President Yoon Suk-yeol.

Fifty years after the overthrow of Salvador Allende, the novelist speaks about the Chilean coup and the threats to American democracy today.

The government’s attempts to influence the election have brought an unexpected opportunity for a candidate with a particular connection to the country’s history.

Netanyahu is willing to undermine the rule of law in order to insure his own political survival. Sound familiar?

The Court has consigned the independent-state-legislature theory to the “dustbin of history.” But, even as the electoral system remains intact, it’s worth reckoning with its fragility.

Whether “hypocritical pivot” or pure pragmatism, the President had more than one reason to skip the lectures on democracy.

The paper’s publisher discusses bias in reporting, the Times’ financial comeback, and criticisms of its coverage of Trump, trans issues, and the war in Ukraine.