Elections provide a real reckoning of the state of our democracy. It's when skeletons are wrenched out from tightly shut closets and dirty laundry is aired. Ahead of the Delhi polls next month, ...

Over the past year, I focused my columns and my public speaking on how we can renovate our democracy so that it works for all of us and in 21st century conditions. Readers wrote in, and audiences ...

A vote center in San Diego County. Courtesy Registrar of Voters If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team.

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: This past weekend, I was in D.C. for a work trip. At a dinner party I attended, a retired friend ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our Philanthropy Today newsletter. Two data points keep me up at night. According to political scientists Yascha Mounk and Roberto ...

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