John Owen will deliver the keynote lecture for the 2025 Grawemeyer Awards Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Chao Auditorium in the Ekstrom Library on U of L's Belknap campus. He spoke with LPM's Bill Burton ...

Is American democracy broken, as some commenters suggest, or is it deeply imperiled and potentially on the verge of becoming so, as others do? Given what are frequently received as frustrations with ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...

It was recently announced that Harvard Law School had obtained a version of the Magna Carta from 1300 for a small price years ago, only just now realizing it was more than just a cheap copy. My wife ...

SOUTH BEND — It is, in her mind, the most important dissent she’s written while on the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices ruled 5-4 in 2019 that partisan gerrymandering couldn’t be heard by the court, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa needs a democracy of its own context that delivers to all people. Obasanjo said this on Monday in Abuja, while speaking at a Colloquium to mark the 60th ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Alice Austen House is one of 12 museums selected to participate in “A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy,” a Smithsonian showcase exploring democracy, ...

The currently imprisoned founder of Tunisia's Ennahda party clarifies his views on pluralism and Islam’s role in society in his latest collection of essays Ghannouchi greets supporters outside a ...

Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, thank you for asking me to testify on this most important subject, the development of democracy in Africa. This hearing is timely, because there is a growing ...