As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic? For years, advocates have argued the point. Yet the ...

I'm interviewed about this roughly at about 3:15 to 6:30 of this episode of PBS's Civics Made Easy series. Unfortunately, they couldn't include all my discussion of the historical support for my view, ...

I promised yesterday that I would blog on how the US Federal government is not a simple democracy. I do my best to keep promises, so here you go. The topic arose within one of the California Prop 8 ...

Making unions stronger and corporations and billionaires weaker is an essential step to strengthening American democracy, ...

Reflecting on the conditions for the maintenance of republican government (what we would today call “democracy”), James Madison observed that “a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free ...

To any observer paying attention, America in 2026 is confronted by a brutal series of ironies, met with a deafening silence when what is required is a robust response.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Harper's Weekly image of the first reading of the Declaration of Independence outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July ...