Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths and weaknesses.

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Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

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There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down ...

Our political environment has become marked by claims about a particular party being for or against democracy. How do we tell who is telling the truth? Why does it matter that we preserve democracy? A ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

After winning an unexpectedly large electoral victory in November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu went on to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. Its ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox ...

In a Times/Siena survey, respondents’ concerns about democracy often diverged from typical expert analysis. By Nate Cohn A rally called Save America last week in Mesa, Ariz. People have very different ...