Democracy

Scholar Henry Giroux says that America is slipping away, and being replaced with a surveillance state and culture of violence that's threatening the very core of American democracy.

Despite an overwhelming post-9/11 cultural consensus, serving in the military does not automatically make anyone a hero.

The political-electoral reform Mexico's National Congress approved to organize 2015 elections is a step backward for indigenous towns in Mexico.

Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …

Neoliberal governments invoke phrases like “collateral damage” or “military necessity” to absolve them of the horrors they inflict. We need to develop a new political language.

After a week of direct actions protesting privatization and water service shutoffs, the people of Detroit reject a Wall Street-dictated world, decry commodification of the commons and push back …

Hundreds are set to occupy Hong Kong's government and financial district to push for “genuine democracy.”

The Denton, Texas city council failed to pass a fracking ban in after an eight-hour meeting residents called “theater.”

Glowing like a coal in the night, a bunch of kids were immersed in the practice of community and good government.

Since the internet is a component of the public sphere, we should hold it to the ideal of freedom of expression.