Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. The Berlin Wall opening in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 1989. Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. In 1989, the Berlin Wall ...

Michelle Wolchok, president of the League of Women Voters of Washington County, collects a signature for a ballot measure sponsored by the group on July 2, 2025. Credit: Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas ...

Once again, Republicans in the Missouri legislature have shown that they have no respect for the voters in Missouri, or democracy. An article in the News-Leader on Sept. 9 detailed how they are ...

Younger generations are justifiably critical of a government that has saddled them with this debt burden, and many of them have lost faith in the capitalist system. A recent survey by the CATO ...

Senate Majority Leader Tony Luetkemeyer, a Parkville Republican, stands next to Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O'Laughlin, a Shelbina Republican, as discussion continued in the Senate chambers ...