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.

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Democracy is not in decline. The nation-state is. That distinction — between democracy and the nation-state — might seem strange because it is so rarely made. When people around the world talk about ...

The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad. According to Dio, one form of ...