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 ...

Majorities in most of the 25 countries surveyed say their political system needs major changes or complete reform. About eight-in-ten adults or more in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Kenya, Nigeria, South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he was first sworn in as Uganda’s president in 1986, Yoweri Museveni declared that his victory represented a “fundamental ...