Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone ...

The media is often called the “fourth estate” because it stands apart from government, yet its influence can be just as ...

Using public opinion polls to try to predict which candidate – Democrat Mikie Sherrill or Republican Jack Ciattarelli – will ...

Prop. 50 is an objectively bad measure that everyone should vote against. Nearly two decades ago, California voters decided that having politicians draw their own districts was a bad idea and had the ...

Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as ...

Democracy isn’t collapsing from single blows. It is being chipped away—internally and externally. To survive, it requires ...

Despite what many strategists say, it’s short-sighted and dangerous to assume kitchen-table issues matter more than Trump’s ...

A large, peaceful crowd at the Illinois State Capitol shouted that statement, which was also featured on numerous signs ...

The United States has “about a year” before “democracy completely leaves us,” director Rob Reiner told Ali Velshi on MSNBC Sunday. Reiner cited recent deployments of National Guard soldiers to ...

Rob Reiner, the film director and political activist, in a Sunday appearance on MSNBC warned the nation is sliding into autocracy under President Trump. “We have a year before this country becomes a ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson offered his perspective Monday morning on why Democrats and Republicans failed to pass a spending bill in time: SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: Why did Chuck Schumer change his tune, ...