Democracy

People understand that voting alone will not magically change the system.

What so-called ‘freedoms’ were achieved with the fall of the Berlin Wall?

While the pundits gnaw the bones of Election 2014, Gar Alperovitz looks at the positive possibilities.

As we observe important 50-year anniversaries, we are also losing awareness of the power and potential of direct political action.

The impunity with which successive Greek governments and Greece's media moguls operate makes the Greek case stand out.

Social justice activists' biggest challenge is to provide an alternative discourse that can convince US citizens that real democracy is worth fighting for.

The Harper government is capitalizing on two recent attacks to curtail Canadians' civil rights.

Engage, and start the conversation of democracy where you live - in your apartment complex, on your block, in your neighborhood.

In Oregon, the capture of local government by the timber industry results in the destruction of the natural world and the poisoning of the populace, but a Josephine County …

Trying murderers alleged terrorists in civilian courts sends a message to the rest of the world that America won't sacrifice its core values in the fight against terrorism.