Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment. America may be still a constitutional republic in name, but recently it has operated more as an unchecked Athenian-style democracy. Americans may ...

Much of Earth’s population has been voting this year. Where democracies are strained and stressed, is there room for optimism? By The New York Times This article is from a special report on the Athens ...

The best way to deal with the twin crises of apathy and polarization afflicting modern-day democracies is to revisit democracy’s origins in ancient Greece, according to this intriguing debut from ...