Polls show Jara with strong support in the first round of voting. But will that carry her through a likely run-off?

County Councillors have voted for the 'lesser of two evils' option of merging with the district authorities rather than an ...

A well-informed citizenry is the backbone of a healthy democracy,” writes Lindsey Cormack in her 2024 book How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It). She contends that raising engaged ...

Copland Rudolph is the executive director of Asheville City Schools Foundation (ACSF), an education nonprofit dedicated to helping students thrive. Xpress: What is your organization’s most urgent need ...

Students at the John Lewis Social Justice Academy in Dallas ISD meet in the school’s chambers to debate aspects of democracy.

The carnage in the Sudanese city of El Fasher has become so severe that the blood stains can be seen from space.

Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...

Americans have been to class every day since Jan. 20: civics class. For months, various writers have moaned about adults not knowing enough about our democracy and that civics is ...

Readers also comment on masked ICE agents, shutdown politics, vaccine safety, demolition of the East Wing, No Kings protests, health care and more.

India is the largest democracy in the world with 1.4 billion people. By comparison, the U.S. has a population of 330 million.

Predictably, billionaires spent huge sums of money to defeat Mamdani. Their efforts did not work. Trump and the right-wing ...

Tuesday’s statement from the president came as plaintiffs on the SNAP lawsuit filed a motion asking a R.I. judge to force the Trump administration provide full funding for the national food stamp ...