Democracy

Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. South African President Jacob Zuma announced Mandela's death Thursday saying, "Our nation has …

Activists and some election observers in Honduras vow to call for free and fair recount in election they say as rigged in favor of the ruling conservative party.

A change in filibuster rule restores the possibility of a functioning Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government.

The New York Times finally reported on the extensive GOP communication campaigns to change public discourse. Then it published a piece of propaganda by that campaign on the front …

The Senate voted on Thursday to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, a move that will break the Republican blockade of President Obamau2019s picks to …

My fellow Americans, tonight I want to apologize for the results of my efforts in reforming US healthcare.

Last week, voters in Detroit elected a new mayor, Mike Duggan, to carry on the work of the emergency managers and governor in rebuilding a u201cnew Detroit.u201d

“We the People.” How many of us have really thought through the implications of these three words?

Education “reform” is threatening to gut and loot US universities, while the fact that American democracy has been devolving into oligarchy is not a serious enough matter to address …

“I wanted to know why Gov. Chris Christie portrays New Jersey public schools as failure factories. Apparently that question struck a nerve.”