About the author: William Priest is vice chair of TD Wealth and founder of Epoch Investment Partners. He co-authored Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order with David Roche and Alex ...

Only about one-quarter of Americans say the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world, the new poll found.

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evolving toward something better.

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

It is common to talk about democracy as a certain type of political regime — namely, as a way of organizing the state with specific operating rules, including multiple institutions, commissions and ...

When I lived in China, a decade ago, I often saw propaganda billboards covered in words that supposedly expressed the country’s values: Patriotism. Harmony. Equality. And … Democracy. Indeed, China ...

Nestled in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the slash-and-burn playbook for the federal government that the Trump administration is following while saying it isn’t, is a call for American ...

In short, progressive elitism, the view that credentialed experts will do a better job running things than the masses and so are entitled to run things, becomes incoherent when matched with fevered ...

If there is one lesson that American entertainment media has broadcast for generations to the world, it is to be yourself. For me, in coming-of-age times, this came through figures such as Zack Morris ...