I fear for the future of American democracy. This is not simply a reaction to the Nov. 5 election, but a serious worry that I have had for several years; indeed, in August, I published a book on ...

Corruption in any democratic system can paralyze and eventually kill the system. It’s corruption of money that’s been slowly killing America’s democracy for the past 35 years.

How did it come to this? Do people still believe in democracy? This was the question asked by a recent Open Society Foundations poll, which for the second consecutive year surveyed more than ...

But it should be reassuring that democracy is not facing a global extinction event but more a patchwork of storms, and that democracies have usually found a way to weather them. Serge Schmemann ...

Democracy thus operates by framing the normal ... it is worth comparing the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s to the extinction rebellion of today. It is impossible to overstate the apocalyptic ...

Reparative democracy would tether the demos to both the nonhuman and ... however differently: crises of climate change, extinction chains and biodiversity collapse, water availability, breathable air, ...

there’s every reason to treat a second Trump term as an extinction-level threat to American democracy. This assault on democracy didn’t come out of nowhere. My recent book on democracy ...

Evoking Lincoln, he warned that “what we’re doing now is going to determine whether democracy will long endure.” Call it the Cringe Gettysburg Address. The rhetoric of political extinction ...

Not even if we are hurtling toward an extinction-level event for American democracy. A Trump restoration would trash democracy, ransack the rule of law, and ultimately shatter the nation.

but it is yet another deeply troubling indication that this democracy is near extinction. While American democracy has lasted longer than all of the others, unless there is a genuine realization ...

More than one-third of the world’s trees may be facing mass extinction due to deforestation and global heating from human activity. The findings were announced Monday at the United Nations ...

Do people still believe in democracy? This was the question asked by a recent Open Society Foundations poll, which for the second consecutive year surveyed more than 36,000 people in 30 countries ...