Five companies—five—now control 90 percent of the media marketplace. And they are showing no commitment to anything ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says improved civic education across the country would help people make better ...

Maspeth: I kept hearing the phrase “democracy in a republic,” so I looked it up on Wikipedia: “The American Creed is a term ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the United States and Western Europe devoted much diplomacy and foreign aid to helping the former USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe develop civil society ...

Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, used his Tuesday speech at the United Nations to openly ...

The simple fact is that no Palestinian entity qualifies for any definition of statehood, and no definition of good applies to ...

They are trying. Do they have a Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, or Castro? Gavin Newsom would love to be that person.

This moment in U.S. history, defined by rising authoritarianism, extreme wealth inequality, and the withering away of participatory democracy, is not a glitch in the system. Rather, it is the ...

For many, Kimmel’s rebound appears to be a win for free speech and a testament to the power of boycotts against powerful ...

A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of ...