Drutman is a senior fellow at New America and author "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America." This is the conclusion of a two-part, post-election series ...

Participants in a Pennsylvania focus group shared concerns about how polarized political parties and social media giants are pushing the country in a dangerous direction.

Social media helps democracy because we as teens are more actively making connections and learning new ... Going in a different direction, because I'll just get sadder and sadder. I'm sorry.

Across history, democracy tends to bring about more social spending as it compels governments to respond to voters’ needs. Ethnic diversity, however, pushes in the opposite direction.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Updated at 12:18 p.m. ET on February 10, 2025. With the leader of a failed coup back in the White House and pursuing an unprecedented assault on the ...

Even though the desire for equality through democracy is still a powerful ideal in the world, many people, even in our American democracy, are being challenged and influenced by forces favoring ...

Professor Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, notes in The Atlantic that “conflicting studies are common in social-science research.” And yet, his “undermining democracy ...

U.S. democracy still moving in the right direction, former secretary of state says at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. October 19, 2022 at 4:00 a.m.

If our democracy is to fail, it won’t happen overnight. We will not wake up one day to discover that representatives in Washington have been banished, and that the Capitol Another Voice ...

David A. Strauss’s essay, “Social Media and First Amendment Fault Lines,” is a helpful primer on what is at stake in terms of free speech as we consider the regulation of social media. Second, Larry ...

U.S. democracy still moving in the right direction, former secretary of state says at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. October 19, 2022 at 4:00 a.m.