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Everything about the staging of Kamala Harris’s “closing argument” rally Tuesday night on the White House Ellipse seemed designed to frame the upcoming election as a referendum on democracy. Flanked ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms. This has ...

America's social fabric is unraveling due to increasing social isolation and loneliness, leading to negative political and civic consequences. This isolation breeds distrust, polarization, and ...

Workers at a Ford plant in Michigan, 1920s. (Getty Images) The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American ...

George Washington, despite initial doubts about his abilities, successfully led the American army to victory against the British. Washington's strategic avoidance of direct confrontation with the ...

Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one of the nation’s most powerful philanthropic institutions. Walker is now ...

President Biden has made preserving and protecting American democracy a central issue in his campaign for re-election. He regularly offers himself as democracy’s true champion and argues that electing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s experiment with democracy and its position as a political and economic superpower died quietly after a punishing and long illness. Future historians and social scientists ...

Mercyhurst University professor and political science department chair Joseph Morris views a particular course as the most important he teaches. His Introduction to American Government class is an ...

The Countdown to Conflict with Venezuela Looks Nothing Like the Run-Up to the Iran Strikes Some of the loudest voices applauding NED’s struggles are those who wish to see freedom fail. That should ...

We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning ...