“Certainty is not what democracy is about. You don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines until you’re ready to be seen,” a student speaker said.

Stanford Continuing Studies, a program that shares educational resources with adult students, hosted the sixth and final installment of its “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series on Nov. 11.

Democrats tried using an abstract argument in 2024. The “Fight Oligarchy” tour is drawing crowds but isn't moving the needle. Protests, whether "No Kings" nationwide or in Los Angeles, can motivate a ...

World War II veteran Gene Kleindl, age 102, from Rockford, Ill., receives a kiss from Chantell Boivin while leaving the Normandy American Cemetery on June 4 in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. Kleindl, a ...

Democracy is the bedrock of a free and fair society. The Council of Europe, with its 46 member states, is dedicated to protecting and promoting democratic values across Europe ...

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Americans, it seems, can both value the idea of democracy and not support it in practice. Since 2016, academics and journalists have expressed concerns that formerly secure democracies are becoming ...

President Biden's trip to Normandy will commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. But there's also a political subtext to the journey. To mark D-Day, Biden will deliver a defense of democracy that ...