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Al Gore: We need to restore American democracy’s immunity to blatant falsehoods
Former Vice President Al Gore is troubled by what he sees as an American vulnerability to false assertions driving political policy. Gore has just re-released his book “The Assault on Reason,” 10 years after its original publication with an update…
8 books on politics to read right now, from indie bookstore Politics & Prose
This week, we went to our local independent bookseller, Politics and Prose, for their thoughts on what to read right now. Here are eight books -- both old and new -- recommended by the P&P staff, who chose to focus…
Analysis: 10 elections to watch in 2017
Millions of people around the world went to the polls this year. The results provided plenty of surprises. British voters defied the pollstersand voted to leave the European Union. Colombians did much the same in …
Election questions leave U.S. distrustful, like other nations
Americans' enduring confidence that their elections are unimpeachably fair is teetering.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke says her poem, "America, I Sing You Back", was born not out of anger but out of concern and a love for her country.
A beleaguered Donald Trump sought to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. presidential election on Saturday.
Amidst the atrocities of the Syrian war, democratic groups have arisen across the country.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday tried his hand at archery, sampled curdled cheese and watched ancient wrestling, all while hailing Mongolia as a modern "oasis of democracy" in its neighborhood.
Last week Egypt marked the five-year anniversary of the revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak. But the road forward has been slow and tumultuous. Jeffrey Brown talks to Bassem Youssef, the political satirist some call the "Jon Stewart of Egypt,”…
