Every policy pronouncement from Washington or your state capital carries an implicit promise: Government can deliver what it pledges. Yet when systems collapse under their own complexity — requiring ...

In late October, more than 80% of Botswana’s electorate went to the polls and voted out the incumbent government. The unexpected result was accepted by all parties, and the outgoing president ...

Lost amid the cacophony over the bitter presidential campaign and the rampant concerns about the poor health of U.S. democracy is a set of initiatives on state ballots that are likely to have far more ...

The youth-led struggle for democracy in Uganda reflects a broader continental reality: young Africans want better leadership.

The left and right don’t agree on much, but many on both sides do agree on one thing: the system is broken. Over the past decade, anti-system political movements have surged, from Brexit in 2015 to ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Nicholas Antonucci, a social studies teacher in the Sachem school district who briefly ran in the 2022 Democratic primary in Congressional District 1. Imagine a ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

As Afghanistan grapples with the aftermath of the Taliban’s return to power, the country faces the daunting task of rebuilding its political institutions from the ground up. The failures of the ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The Trump administration has enabled a small network of high-tech oligarchs to determine a vast ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Are Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump really the two best candidates for America's most demanding and important job? Hardly. Trump tried to reverse the last election. And ...