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The first-ever criminal trial of a former president was a parade of tawdry testimony about Donald Trump. He used it to launch an attack on the justice system.

The foundational democratic principle that no one is above the law withstood the first criminal trial of a former American president. But the strain is starting to show.

Autocrats are actively attempting to dismantle the very foundational documents that hold our democracy together, effectively eroding our freedoms. A reversionary, obstructionist faction has become hostile to the most basic

President Joe Biden argues that “democracy is on the ballot” in the 2024 election.

NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate a panel of noted journalists and faculty to discuss how the news media is navigating an era of political polarization amid shrinking newsrooms.

The most popular historical analogy for current American troubles is the Civil War era. The second most popular is the Gilded Age. But where the 1850s do not meaningfully resemble today, the 1890s ce…

This is why democracy is under such stress now.

It’s a well-known story, but it bears repeating from time to time. As Ben Franklin was leaving Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1787 after the delegates had finished writing our nation’s Constitution, he passed through the crowd that had gathered on the steps hoping to learn what kind of government

"For the Democrats to hide behind this, and say theyre not helping these extreme candidates, I think is transparently nonsensical," Robert Lieberman said.

Johns Hopkins scholars discuss how the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, changed the course of their research and how it might have forever altered American democracy