If democracy is desirable because it gives us a measure of agency over the conditions that shape our lives—helping us master our own fates rather than living as the mere subjects of the powerful or ...

(Editor’s note: For the last 28 years, every other week, former Congressman Lee Hamilton wrote a commentary about how ...

As Americans get ready to mark the holiday of the nation’s independence, we have reason to celebrate one of the hallmarks of our democracy: The nation’s more than 100,000 foundations distributed more ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. If you are an American citizen, you must stand up for your rights now. The current administration's ...

In anticipation of what he calls a “tidal wave of assaults on the vote in 2013,” Benjamin Jealous, head of the NAACP, began to hatch a shared advocacy strategy this summer with leaders from the ...

The fact that 1994 was celebrated so intensely and for several years was the early warning sign that we did not understand democracy.

Since 2006, I have partnered with the City of Boston to recruit college students as poll workers through a political science course I teach at Suffolk University on voting rights and election law. The ...

Emmett Soldati, Somersworth business owner and former candidate for New Hampshire Executive Council in District 1, told the crowd gathered for the “Steps Toward a Democracy Money Can’t Buy” annual ...

Our state’s constitution does something that makes some politicians very uncomfortable: It reserves for the people of Arkansas a set of legislative powers. (Did you know that you, an Arkansas citizen, ...