This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There is a new incumbent in the White House, ...

Sept. 15 is the United Nations’ International Day of Democracy, an annual moment to assess the health of democracy around the world. Unfortunately, as numerous studies have demonstrated, democracy has ...

Just this week, using a “security justifies all” narrative, the Trump administration took over Washington, D.C.’s police department and mobilized National Guard troops, portraying the city as overrun ...

President Trump is pushing for more control at dozens of colleges and universities, he says to promote free speech, end “wokeism” and clamp down on antisemitism. But many schools are opposing the ...

Is American democracy going to be OK? You hear this question asked regularly around the country these days. There is a national and worldwide narrative that American democracy is in persistent decline ...

Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017. Across that set of countries – ...

It doesn't take a conspiracy to dismantle democracy - just concentrated wealth and time. Across the globe, but especially in the United States, the ultra-wealthy have learned to bend democratic ...

In his next documentary, Michael P. Nash takes on A.I. and how it might be used to address environmental issues. By Shivani Vora The Athens Democracy Forum last week featured an array of speakers from ...

Is it wrong for political operatives from one party to draw congressional lines? Is it wrong to suspend congressional district maps painstakingly drawn by an independent commission in favor of maps ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...