On the Saturday before Election Day this year, a coalition of scholars who study authoritarianism issued an open letter of warning titled, “How to Keep the Lights on in Democracies.” It began: ...

Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths ...

Keane (The New Despotism), a professor of politics at the University of Sydney, delivers a concise and informative history of democracy “as an unending process of humbling unconstrained power.” ...

The Electoral College is back at the center of our national political conversation. The fact that Hillary Clinton received 2.7 million more popular votes in 2016 than Donald Trump and still lost the ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of... Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of civil rights progress ...

David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in New York University’s department of politics and an affiliated professor in NYU School of Law. He is the author ...

For more than two centuries, Americans have largely cast their votes on paper. Yet the paper trail of that long history is thin. That’s because U.S. law requires that ballots, a record-keeping ...

When American Public Television kicked off its Fall Marketplace conference Nov. 11 in Cleveland, CEO Jim Dunford interviewed Mark Updegrove, presidential historian for ABC News who also hosts the APT ...

The inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden and Vice-President Kamala D. Harris went off without a hitch Wednesday, but the United States can never again take for granted its revered tradition of a ...

Tufts Daily (TD): What was the inspiration for this exhibit? What did the curation process look like? Phoebe Segal (PS): We opened new galleries of Greek and Roman art at the end of 2021. And when we ...