Tag: democracy

With the 2024 presidential election approaching on Nov. 5, political student organizations on Drexel University’s campus have prepared students to vote and provided opportunities to…

With midterm elections just a few days away, the overwhelmingly long wait in queues to place your votes and drop your ballots will not be…

“I thought I came here to study, but instead I get Molotov cocktails thrown over my head,” says my German roommate, as he casually walks…

Is the fate of the planet — that is, of our fate on it — tied to the fate of democracy? I think there are…

As American democracy descends further into its present impasse — or abyss — we can trace the steps by which we have arrived at our…

To have democracy, you have to have civil society. In the broadest sense, the term is inclusive of everyone who lives in a given country…

What does “democratic socialism” mean? When Bernie Sanders, the man who brought the term back into public use, is asked to define it, he typically…

The two famous comments about democracy in the last century were made, respectively, by America’s 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, and by Winston Churchill. Wilson declared…

Sometimes it takes a deeply conservative intelligence to get to the heart of the matter. Such an intelligence was that of William Butler Yeats, who…

Free speech is the most important right we have. The Founding Fathers, understanding it as the prime element in a free society, wrote it into…