Once again, America must confront a fundamental question: Will we protect the right to vote for every American, or allow the Voting Rights Act to be weakened beyond recognition? This week, the Supreme ...

Town halls allow voters to directly question their representatives and hold them accountable. Many members of Congress avoid town halls due to the risk of facing angry crowds in viral moments. Indiana ...

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 ...

NYU’s School of Law debuted its Democracy Project last month, rolling out plans to research current threats to U.S. democracy and convene scholars across political affiliations to discuss bipartisan ...

Just over 20 years ago, John Roberts was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In those two decades, Roberts has blithely overseen the near-total dismantling of American democracy and ...

In his farewell address published Sept. 17, 1796, President George Washington warned, “[p]artisanship is like a fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a ...

The nation’s top economic statistician was fired. Central bank independence is being undermined. The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up American democracy is under siege. As the nation approaches ...

Once again, Republicans in the Missouri legislature have shown that they have no respect for the voters in Missouri, or democracy. An article in the News-Leader on Sept. 9 detailed how they are ...

When asked on CNN in early September whether he would still push his radical-left agenda if elected mayor with only about one-third of the vote—since the race is expected to split among him, ...

Missouri Republican lawmakers late Thursday voted to advance a new, gerrymandered congressional map despite hours of fiery public testimony against the proposal. Roughly an hour later, Republicans ...

The best counter to Trump’s authoritarianism is a renewed commitment to secure full representative democracy in Washington. Members of the National Guard patrol at the National Mall on August 26, 2025 ...