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How can Americans restore their confidence in their government?

What can fix a democracy in crisis?

Ahead of the midterms, what are we hearing about the candidates, the campaigns, and the issues?

Senator Cory Booker on the problems Democrats, and all Americans, need to confront.

What might we learn from the past about the current state of politics and democracy in America?

What were the ideals of the framers, and what can they teach us about modern American democracy?

When President Biden expanded the nation's Child Tax Credit in March, US Senator Michael Bennet applauded the move. Bennet, a democrat from Colorado, has been working to increase support for families since he introduced the American Family Act in Congress in 2017. Now he wants to make the Credit, which pays most American families $250 or $300/child each month, permanent. H...

Kleptocracy presents a growing threat to US national security and international peace, as money laundering and other forms of public “grand corruption” increasingly undermine democracy, cripple development, weaken Western soft power, and accelerate state collapse.

What are the ways in which people are viewing voting through the lens of race?

Rebecca Blumenstein on gender, journalism, and protecting democracy through news.

Norman Lear and Khizr Khan on liberty, democracy, and enduring American values.

James Madison would be horrified to see how social media has helped unleash populist passions.

Robert D. Putnam on his latest book, "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."

Trust in civic, religious, and academic institutions is at an all-time low in America.