For the last 10 years, we’ve been hearing that President Donald Trump will preside over the end of democracy in America. In liberal circles, that assertion is often accepted as fact. For many, the ...

The Fulcrum is committed to nurturing the next generation of journalists. To learn about the many NextGen initiatives we are leading, click HERE. We asked Lluvia Chavez, a Mexican-American bilingual ...

From a man dressed in an inflatable squirrel costume shouting “Trump is nuts!” to a handmade sign that read “Proud anti-fascist,” organizers estimated more than 1,000 people marched and chanted ...

I first read Plato as an undergraduate. Later, I studied his work in depth during my Ph.D. coursework. Plato viewed democracy as a form of tyranny. He argued that democracy gives power to people who ...

Thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Boston Common Saturday for the “No Kings” rally, voicing dissatisfaction with the actions of the Trump administration. Crowds at the Boston Common for the ...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that the tone of political discourse and threats to judges are undermining the ability of the U.S. to serve as an example of freedom ...

Thousands of people gathered across the Dallas-Fort Worth area Saturday to take part in several protests linked to the 50501 movement. Saturday’s events were the latest in a series of nationwide days ...

For generations, Americans have clung to the idea that our troops fight to protect (and sometimes export) our freedom. But as Americans increasingly fight over what democracy really means domestically ...

How strange. I’ve been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American war in Vietnam. And almost 60 years later, ...

But the Founding Fathers, who favored a republic designed to temper the passions of large assemblies, would not have recognized themselves in the sea of subversives and malcontents at No Kings rallies ...