Democracy News and Blog Posts

Let’s remember a few reasons why people fight for their rights, and why we should, too.

The public has a new opportunity to test their hypotheses about how to strengthen U.S. democracy — all while potentially winning thousands of dollars. Stanford University and collaborators are invi...

When one turns fifty, as I recently did, one’s sense of mortality inches insidiously closer. As for me, I crossed this symbolic age threshold determined to embrace, rather than resist, life’s unfor...

This video and commentary originally appeared on National Conversation Project's #ListenFirstFriday project.

Our current, polarized political landscape is reverberating through our classrooms. Today's students are tomorrow's leaders, and we are counting on them to forge a more positive path that is less d...

Though the answer is vitally important to our freedom and our way of life, this isn’t a question most Americans would ever consider.

So what’s more imp...