While I was in Athens, a Palestinian democracy activist from East Jerusalem, Samer Sinijlawi, reached out to me with a ...

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American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy (AMSTUD 123X, POLISCI 102, PUBLPOL 101) (201): American democracy faces a series of unprecedented challenges. This course will identify the ...

For the past ten years I have paid close attention to everything Donald Trump has said and done. This is my job—but it is also who I have become. At the school gates, in the office, online: friends ...

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: ...

Director Asghar Farhadi slammed Ben Affleck's "Argo" at the Rio Film Festival, calling it a "Hollywood thing" that portrays ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

In a recent editorial, John Hall suggests that religion is an obstacle to American democracy — a relic of “magical thinking” that breeds conflict, division, and impedes progress, driven by modern ...

The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...

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Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows spoke at a recent gathering hosted by the Maine Chapter of American Lawyers for ...