Technology and its threats were central themes at the Athens Democracy Forum.  By Farah Nayeri An interview with Pita ...

“The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law” is the title of a 2025 book just published by Lord Jonathan Sumption, a rare eminence: An Oxford history academic and Barrister who went on to serve ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

The first problem is conceptual and fatal: Representative democracy is simply not democratic. One person cannot perfectly represent another’s freedom, desires, needs, or individuality. Consider an ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2025 issue of The Independent Review. Suri Ratnapala’s Philosophy, Law and Culture of Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge revisits the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) tours the UC Berkeley campus alongside Chancellor Rich Lyons ahead of announcing the Nancy ...

The organization “The General Strike” aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US ...

AFTER HOUSE SPEAKER Emerita Nancy Pelosi retires from Congress next year, she will move on to her next gig: teaching at her eponymous center at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley ...

Part of a series of occasional features marking the nation’s semiquincentennial. Creating a democracy was not really at the forefront of the founders’ minds when the American colonies first declared ...

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 ...