democracy

HARRISBURG (TNS) — As a growing group of Pennsylvania Democrats mount an aggressive campaign for Gov. Josh Shapiro to be Vice President Kamala Harris’...

As the nation’s most populous swing state, Pennsylvania was always going to be key to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. It’s becoming clear that his re...

After President Joe Biden’s abysmal performance in the first debate, Democrats and progressives are sweating bullets. They have been in denial for fou...

As Americans come together this week to celebrate the 248th anniversary of our nation’s independence, Keep Our Republic (KOR) reaffirms its commitment...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A western Pennsylvania county’s elected commissioners were sued Monday over a policy adopted for this year’s primary in which people...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork to appear on the Pennsylvania ballot as a presidential candidate. The fourth Kennedy to run for president an...

In 2010, the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United decision, leading to an explosion in political spending and the rise of dark money groups thatex...

Are we witnessing, and participating in, the real-time death of our democracy with eyes wide shut? Most of the democracies that have died since the en...

HARRISBURG — Despite the recent cancellation of a press conference to announce the Forward Party’s latest endorsement, officials remain optimistic abo...

Democrats calm themselves over President Joe Biden’s miserable poll numbers by noting that the election remains months away, an eternity in politics. ...

More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a “democratic recession.” Dozens of countries were drifting away from dem...

Democracy is under threat — the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worr...

My friends have it wrong. I recently reached out to many of them about an effort to combat the intentional efforts by “big lie” candidates to take ove...

If you thought Donald Trump represented a unique danger to the American system of government, you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the growi...

We all know what happens when a tree falls in an empty forest. What happens when a democracy emerges unscathed from a purported vile racist threat to ...

Chances are, deluded mass murderer Payton Gendron doesn't actually know any Black people to speak of. According to the 2020 census, his hometown of Co...

(Editor’s note: This is an editorial from the Chicago Tribune, distributed by Tribune News Service.) This editorial board long has supported a woman’s...

A sweeping generalization is an overarching or overly broad statement or opinion in which a general idea or rule is applied too widely, without allowi...

A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...

What can sensible adults agree on regarding Kyle Rittenhouse, the latest young symbol on whom America can hang its devastating internal division and t...