Elizabeth Metts is a 9th grade history teacher, team leader and teaching fellow mentor at Excel Academy Charter High School ...

Our modern democracy has always been under attack, and no one ever knew. Democracy has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Since then, the system of democracy has undoubtedly evolved ...

Online you may see arguments that the United States isn't a democracy. Are these claims valid? Democracy is a principle that speaks to the spirit of America. As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “We are ...

Given the tumultuous state of politics in the United States, it’s understandable that many people are asking themselves, “What is democracy?” By definition, democracy is a form of government that ...

Everybody knows philosophy is useless. Philosophers have their heads in the clouds having nothing to do with events on the ground. Parents of university students want their kids to earn MD, JD or MBA ...

For decades the federal government has invested insufficient resources into the essential goods and services that communities depend on to survive and thrive. A notable exception was the investments ...

The results are in, Donald Trump will return to the White House, and so democracy works, right? You betcha, and the fact that Trump is in and Kamala Harris is out should satisfy even the most ...

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Pope Francis cited the examples of Western intervention in Libya and Iraq in arguing that the West should not “export” its own "type of democracy” to other countries, according to a recently published ...

The results are in, Donald Trump will return to the White House, and so democracy works, right? You betcha, and the fact that Trump is in and Kampala Harris is out should satisfy even the most ...