Democracy

The commanding institutions of society are now in the hands of powerful corporate interests whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional, says Henry A. Giroux.

The recent FCC proposal to end net neutrality illustrates the trend toward corporate communism, but a social communism is what needs to be rehabilitated.

Despite the lip service given to democracy the world over, coups remain a popular last resort. Here's why.

Radical cartoonist Sarah Rosenblatt illustrates astroturfing, or fake grassroots organizing, to demonstrate how corporations and politicians undermine social democracy.

Americans only have a small window of opportunity to break the grip of moneyed interests on our government.

Outnumbered by the country's rural voters, Thailand's once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda.

The distribution of wealth is one of today's most widely discussed and controversial issues. But what do we really know about its evolution over the long term?

A pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the …

In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.

Thomas Paine never veered from the proposition that liberty meant the liberty to speak the truth even if no one wanted to hear it.