For those keen to celebrate America’s birthday but wary of overdoing it, this newspaper recommends something more cerebral ...

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As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the biggest question for our democracy is whether a system designed for the ...

The bulwarks of self-government have given way under multiple MAGA putsches. Instead of pledging to protect our democracy, Democrats need a plan to restore it Protesters carry a coffin symbolizing the ...

Donald Trump is not forever. There will be an after. It’s hard to see from the present, where everything feels frozen in place. But from history’s vantage, change is the only constant. American ...

For the past ten years I have paid close attention to everything Donald Trump has said and done. This is my job—but it is also who I have become. At the school gates, in the office, online: friends ...

Retired Navy Admiral William McRaven, whose career included organizing and overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ...

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 ...