The disagreement can be traced to paradoxes in four areas: Mandates, authority, institutional autonomy, and competence ...

The concept of democracy, and its unique form in the United States, can be difficult to understand. This free online comic from the Center for Cartoon Studies will allow students to visualize how the ...

I'm Ben Sheehan, and this is "Civics Made Easy". If you didn't sleep through history or philosophy class, you may remember ...

What is the Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic? Students will participate in an externship with Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit founded by former White House and Department of Justice ...

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 ...

Among the firsts in Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” is the concept of democracy that it assumed. Democracy, according to the twenty-two-year-old poet, is an aspiration—a thing of ...