One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who and what they were voting for,” adding that few people would have looked at the 982-page Project 2025, a “daunting document.” I ...
How can remembering we are Earthborn reshape democracy in an age of crisis? Ali Aslam is associate professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Ordinary Democracy: Sovereignty ...
During a 2017 Meet the Press interview, then-Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway used the now-infamous phrase “alternative facts” to describe a false statement. The phrase was one of the early ...
“Vox populi, vox Dei” — the voice of the people is the voice of God. In theory, American democracy is built on a system in which citizens, regardless of wealth or status, can all steer the course of ...
In India’s post-shame era, nationalism, spectacle politics, and elite power blunt criticism, leaving citizens as spectators rather than watchdogs.