Featured series 
Tag: Democracy
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Nation & World
How somewhat obscure English duke helped stoke American revolutionary ambitions
Danielle Allen’s new book unearths role of Charles Lennox in supporting ‘radical’ writers, thinkers including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin
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Nation & World
Will Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance yield big changes for parties?
Nicholas Stephanopoulos says probably not, but it may make it easier for wealthy donors to bypass individual giving limits
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Nation & World
Hot off the presses: The Declaration of Independence
A flawed first copy — dashed off in all-nighter — endures as template for democracy in action
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Nation & World
Warning: This debate ‘could be really combustible’
Conservative and progressive law scholars get together to trade views on SCOTUS legitimacy — and prove a chatbot wrong
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Nation & World
Breyer makes case for civic education
Retired SCOTUS justice says path to less polarization runs through the classroom
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Nation & World
Voting goes to court
Election law expert assesses challenges to state authority as parties look ahead to midterms
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Nation & World
What it will take to turn things around
Mitt Romney offers critique on nation’s divisiveness, foreign policy, value of hard, thankless work of governing
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Nation & World
Michael Sandel saw it coming
Philosophy helps us solve ‘big questions that matter,’ argues ‘Justice’ professor as he accepts Berggruen Prize
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Nation & World
When is it time to dissent?
Legal, constitutional scholar suggests looking to judges’ practices for wider lessons
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Nation & World
Is a more perfect union still possible?
Faust, Buttigieg, and Glaude look at past, present of nation’s divides
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Nation & World
Two Americas, then and now
Panel featuring filmmaker Ken Burns probes ‘disjunction’ between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
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Nation & World
Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?
Historians trace role of physicians, medicine, disease during war in articles marking 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence
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Nation & World
Ex-Trump envoy makes case for Iran attack
President acted in response to ‘culmination of threats,’ says Morgan Ortagus
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Arts & Culture
How Ben Franklin put a charge into American independence
Reputation in science was key to his political power, historian says. On the other hand, ‘Frankenstein.’
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Nation & World
Anne Applebaum inspects the shards of post-war order
Atlantic staff writer weighs Ukraine’s future, ‘radical’ threats to global stability
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Nation & World
What would the Founding Fathers think of TikTok?
Experts weigh national security concerns against free speech in discussion of video app’s future
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Nation & World
Border security isn’t really the problem
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says current backlash is owing to cloudy mission, aggressive tactics
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Nation & World
A start in bridging divisiveness: Rein in social media
Republican Utah governor, Democrat U.S. congressman find common cause
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Nation & World
What if we used AI to strengthen democracy?
Surveillance, control, propaganda aren’t the only options, says security technologist
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Campus & Community
‘Our students are seeking not just to coexist, but to understand’
8 projects win Building Bridges grants to spark constructive dialogue on campus
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Nation & World
Our self-evident truths
New book takes as focus ‘greatest sentence ever written,’ how it may help a riven nation recall common values
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Campus & Community
Life and times of ‘the birth certificate of the U.S.’
First-years spend semester delving into 1770s texts, influences that shaped nation, its founding document
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Campus & Community
Building momentum on open inquiry
Schools implement recommendations to foster more, better conversations on tough topics around campus
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Nation & World
What unites Americans?
Civil Discourse panelists debate how to strengthen national ties
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Nation & World
Princeton leader defends campus free speech efforts amid ‘civic crisis’
Eisgruber, author of ‘Terms of Respect,’ says campus tensions reflect wider U.S. divisions
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Nation & World
Voice of DOJ experience makes case for ‘deference doctrine’
Visiting professor who served 3 decades with Justice Dept. sees urgent need to protect presumption of regularity
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Nation & World
Finding boundaries of debate
Times columnist Michelle Goldberg discusses Israel, social conservatism, immigration, and where free speech becomes something else
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Nation & World
One idea for equalizing higher education: admissions lotteries
David Deming and Randall Kennedy discuss — and debate — good, bad of meritocracy with ‘Justice’ philosopher
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Nation & World
How independent is the Justice Department now?
Former federal legal officials were worried even before election, but Comey, James indictments crossed line, journalist says
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Nation & World
Time for mandatory retirement ages for lawmakers, judges, presidents?
Americans seem to mostly say yes; legal, medical scholars point to complexities of setting limits
