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

The U.S. Is Both a Republic and a Democracy Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy as well as ...

A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in late August found that 67 percent of U.S. adults think “the nation’s democracy is in danger of collapse.” That is what President Biden said in Philadelphia, ...

In a stable democracy with free and fair elections, this might not matter much. However, if a country begins to experience democratic decline, then these attitudes could become detrimental. If ...

Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in ...

The post-World War II Chicago School of Aaron Director and Milton Friedman reimagined a new (neo) liberalism that treated ...

A lot of people around the world want more democracy, and they see the U.S. as one of the biggest obstacles to that, at least that's according to a new poll out today. More than 50,000 people across ...