Tag: Democracy
‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people...
Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Georgia State University
In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United...
2026 begins with an increasingly autocratic United States rising on the...
Shelley Inglis, Rutgers University
The U.S. military operation in Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3,...
Local democracy is holding strong, but rural communities are falling behind,...
Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan
According to our recent survey of officials in Michigan communities, local democracy is humming...
Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to...
Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut
Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it...
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything...
Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom...
Volha Chykina, University of Richmond; David P. Baker, Penn State; Frank Fernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Justin J.W. Powell, University of Luxembourg
Blame the shutdown on citizens who prefer politicians to vanquish their...
Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University
The United States was founded on the idea that government exists to serve its...
10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition...
Shelley Inglis, Rutgers University
What happens now?
That may well be the question being asked by...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
