This Day examines the first national women’s rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, with Kettering Research Fellow and Brown University Professor of Political Science Deva Woodly.

Donald J. Trump has been elected to a second term, and his transition priorities have been to propose cabinet officials whose chief attributes appear to be unwavering personal loyalty and a ...

Photo by Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images. The statement “No Kings” is meant to be an exclamation of democratic power by ordinary citizens. It is a call that should cause us to consider both the ...

Americans aren’t hanging out together as much as they used to, and it’s having a crippling impact on democracy. It sounds dramatic, but it’s true. According to Montesquieu, who wrote The Spirit of the ...

There is a mystery coiled up inside the latest survey results from The People’s Role in American Democracy, the latest report from the Democracy for All Project, a joint endeavor between the Charles F ...

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Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, I am more in the mood to protest than to celebrate. Does that make me unpatriotic? The answer depends ...

Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images. Every time I hear someone say, “Gen Z doesn’t care about democracy,” I wish I could have them spend a day in my shoes as a civically engaged college ...

The coups pose a significant threat to the ongoing process of democratization that Africa earnestly began in the 1990s. During this time, the Wind of Change brought a legal shift from one-party states ...

History is filled with dark times and with the struggles for freedom against tyranny. When Étienne de La Boétie wrote his “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” in 1549, he not only explored why people ...

The Charles F. Kettering Foundation today announced the awarding of five, one-year global fellowships to inspiring leaders working in many different fields to protect and defend democracy. These ...

Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images. Illiberal leaders rise, fall, and sometimes crash. Yet, the illiberal movement itself continues to gain ground. The current moment again feels like the ...