Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

When government systems collapse under complexity, democracy itself breaks down — fueling the populist frustration reshaping American politics today. When Democracy’s Operating System Crashes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But because democracy as a concept contains multitudes, so its crises are manifold. The erosion of protections against individual ...

In the United States, internal divisions, political dissatisfaction, and institutional dysfunction have become so severe over the past year that the country is backsliding “much faster” than “any ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

More than half of Americans say that the system of democracy is not working in their country, according to a new poll. In the Quinnipiac University poll, 57 percent of respondents said they believe ...

“I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.” —Donald Draper I very much enjoyed Anthony Dimaggio’s piece on January 6th that ran recently here ...

Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

In the discourse about democracy and information and communication technology (ICT), hopes have been expressed that the development and spread of ICT will somehow enhance democracy. It is the somehow ...