Views Editor Denise Perez argues free speech must be protected, even for offensive opinions. Otherwise, it risks becoming a ...

By Ken Burns and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger President Trump’s threats to democracy have prompted a number ...

Early next month, Syria will be holding its first parliamentary elections since the fall of Assad. Why true democratic prospects remain dim.

Over the last two decades, the percentage of people living in free societies has shrunk by half. Trump's love of autocrats ...

A conversation with Columbia University linguist and author John McWhorter on the power of language, the dangers of censorship, and the evolution of slang and swearing.

Our First Amendment exists explicitly to protect the expression of dissenting opinions. Our Founding Fathers did not put it ...

Kasparov: From The Atlantic, this is Autocracy in America. I’m Garry Kasparov.

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the United States and Western Europe devoted much diplomacy and foreign aid to helping the former USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe develop civil society ...

In the wake of political violence, citizen assemblies offer a community-led path to renew democracy and reclaim public voice.

Why are the Israelis silent in the face of their war-mongering government that is spreading war and destruction throughout the region?

A bitterly divided democratic camp, a constitutional setup with few guardrails and a surging extreme right spell trouble ...

Democracy is often described as the greatest gift of modern civilization. It is a system that promises freedom, equality, and ...