Democracy in America Articles

The first fortnight of Donald Trump's presidency has been an unrelenting series of man-made horrors, writes Charlie Samuda Netflix’s show Designated Survivor is not very good, but it does make a point about the different sources of political power in the United...

A debate in which there is disagreement over the basic facts is unlikely to produce an agreed winner. But in a conventional sense it certainly seems like Hillary Clinton had the upper hand in last night’s presidential debate. Although it was perhaps a little overdone...

Before she took the stage last night to accept the Democratic nomination for president there was every indication that Hillary Clinton’s speech would be a very personal one. Becoming the first female nominee is a historic achievement as well as an individual one....

Late last year, shortly after the protests at Yale, our professor took his students out for a beer to try to have a genuine conversation about America’s race problem. It is a conversation that has come to mind repeatedly as events in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas...