“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...

new video loaded: Is Trump a Test or Triumph for Democracy? transcript I mean, a particular kind of conservative will look at something like the British monarchy and say: There’s a kind of mystique to ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote a Forbes article titled, “Greenland Has Spoken: What Trump Doesn’t Get About Danish Leaders”, arguing that the U.S. President and his team are unlikely to win the Greenlanders ...

The Daily sat down for a Q&A with political science Prof. Anna Galland, who teaches a seminar titled “U.S. Democracy in Crisis: Perspectives on the Path.” Outside Northwestern, she works as an ...

The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's workforce, more than ...

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