America is a liberal democracy. Its greatest blessing is freedom, the right to live and act in accordance with one’s conscience. This freedom unleashes boundless energy and creativity, and, along with ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Murphy, who is fifty-one, was a wunderkind, winning election to the House at thirty ...

Former President Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday at the "World Forum 2025 on the Future of Democracy, Tech and Humankind" in Berlin: BILL CLINTON: I think a lot of this problem we’re facing today is not ...

In short, progressive elitism, the view that credentialed experts will do a better job running things than the masses and so are entitled to run things, becomes incoherent when matched with fevered ...

The crisis of democracy and the rule of law has surpassed a critical threshold following the proposal of a ‘special counsel ...

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — the direct result of an FCC threat to pull the licenses of networks that aired him — has shown us how authoritarianism can come to America. I mean this literally. The ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evolving toward something better.

It is common to talk about democracy as a certain type of political regime — namely, as a way of organizing the state with specific operating rules, including multiple institutions, commissions and ...

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 ...