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A new report shows Australians don’t want to be reduced to merely voters. They want a democracy that listens, including ...

In recent decades, philanthropy has increased its investments in policy advocacy to realize strategic objectives in issues ...

There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down ...

Loren DeJonge Schulman speaks Sept. 15 at the Service to the Citizens Award ceremony. (Wyatt Kash) The federal government’s incremental improvements to deliver high-impact services in recent years may ...

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 ...

In a Times/Siena survey, respondents’ concerns about democracy often diverged from typical expert analysis. By Nate Cohn A rally called Save America last week in Mesa, Ariz. People have very different ...

Our political environment has become marked by claims about a particular party being for or against democracy. How do we tell who is telling the truth? Why does it matter that we preserve democracy? A ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

This Pew Research Center analysis on views of how to improve democracy uses data from nationally representative surveys conducted in 24 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, the ...

After winning an unexpectedly large electoral victory in November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu went on to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. Its ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox ...