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A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Eupen, Belgium About two dozen ...

The criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell regarding costly renovations of the Fed's headquarters has ...

Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

Alongside a deluge of new policies, this year has seen unprecedented political discourse about the nature of government: how much we should have, how efficient it can be, and whether bureaucracy will ...

Stanford will celebrate its fifth annual Democracy Day on Nov. 4 in a day-long celebration of civic engagement marked by events, panels, mixers and activities. Despite it being a non-election year, ...

On Jan. 3, I was at home in Caracas when I heard explosions. My room’s windows shook and the walls trembled. At first I thought it was an earthquake, but as the second, fourth, and fifth hollow ...

In response to Ted Gaines' piece, "Proposition 50: It’s a naked power grab" published Oct. 23, I contend his analysis is flawed because it fails to consider the national implications that follow from ...

EUPEN, Belgium – About two dozen people met in a white stone parliament building in eastern Belgium on a recent Saturday. They held a lively debate over the region’s retirement policy and hashed out ...