It’s no secret that America’s middle class is in decline. But while we focus on how that decline started (and who is to blame), we often forget to consider what happens if our middle class is wiped ...

Good morning, class. My name is Professor Brancaccio and thank you for signing up for Political Science 202, where we will discuss all things democracy. Hopefully you’ve all prepped by reading the pre ...

The following is an excerpt from “Healing Middle-Class Democracy: Respecting Each Other, Negotiating Honestly, and Cooperating Fairly,” released March 24, 2026, by RealClear Publishing. As we have ...

Unlike earlier periods when democracies faltered, such as the 1930s, today democracy is waning in every region of the world, and many countries where democratic rule is fading are regional powers, ...

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ATLANTA — Millions of teenagers will be eligible to vote in the next national election. A special group of them are using the time before going to the polls to educate themselves about democracy in ...

As the 2024 election heats up, the Poor People’s Campaign has launched a 40-week effort aimed at mobilizing the voting power of some 15 million poor and low-wage voters across the United States ahead ...

Newt Gingrich openly bragged recently at the Heritage Foundation that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were going to “break out of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt model.” That “model ...

A dozen students gathered around a classroom table one afternoon last fall, their professor’s dog napping in a patch of sunlight on the floor, to do something they rarely did anywhere else on campus: ...