America is both a democracy and a republic. Citizens hold supreme power, and so America is a republic. At the same time, it is obviously a representative democracy. MAGA Republicans, however ...
Trump is a threat to the Constitution, to democracy itself, and is even a “fascist.” But is this true, and could he really impose authoritarian rule in the U.S.? The fascist meme is all over ...
North Korea’s collapse and its absorption by the Republic of Korea seemed only a matter of time. Now, however, democracy seems to be in retreat. Russia under Putin has become more autocratic and ...
Over the past year, I focused my columns and my public speaking on how we can renovate our democracy so that it works for all of us and in 21st century conditions. Readers wrote in, and audiences ...
5, 2024, will be another such point. Once asked what America was, Founding Father Benjamin Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” If Vice President Kamala Harris is elected as ...
In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...
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