And of course, the central role played by conspiracism and conspiracy theories in the Age of Trump and the country’s democracy crisis cannot be minimized. The feeling that there are sinister forces ...

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We speak with pioneering scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about the growing Republican effort to ban critical race theory — an academic field that conservatives have invoked as a catchall phrase ...

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Is technology the answer to the questions of democratic deliberation? Or is democratic deliberation the answer to the questions of technology? In other words, which is the question, and which is the ...

Is regime type consequential for economic, human, and societal development? If so, how and why does it matter whether a country is a democracy or not? To answer those research questions is the ...

In his new book, “Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy,” Colin Dickey wastes no time getting to the point. “The United States was born in paranoia,” he writes ...

In early September, Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden spoke with a group of Johnson County conservatives known as the “Liberty People” about his efforts to investigate voter fraud. It was a ...

“Vox populi, vox Dei” — the voice of the people is the voice of God. In theory, American democracy is built on a system in which citizens, regardless of wealth or status, can all steer the course of ...

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Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Raina Raskin Mr. Douthat is a Times Opinion columnist and the host of the “Interesting ...