From the column: "It’s up to the courts, Congress, and civil society, including everyday Americans, to exercise collective ...

Democracy depends on voters defending it by voting. When some don’t, democracy suffers, and more power is concentrated in fewer people. When enough people don’t vote, democracy dies, and a would-be ...

Preambles The band of brothers that met in Philadelphia to draft a fresh Constitution shared one thing in common: They were ...

"No Kings" rallies brought demonstrators together, joining voices across the nation and region to protest what they call a ...

As political policies increasingly favor profit over people, we must return to our nation's core values of mercy, justice, ...

The Board of Governors (BOG) that oversees the University of North Carolina’s sixteen constituent institutions has created a ...

Letter: What would our Founding Fathers think? Published 8:47 pm Thursday, May 8, 2025. ... Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin said democracy will last as long as enough people care to defend it.

According to the records in the National Archives, many of our founding fathers (John Adams, James Madison, and others), were opposed to democracy. Those founding fathers did not trust the ...

One of the grandest achievements of America’s Founding Fathers was the establishment of a political regime dedicated to the securing the rights granted to all human beings by both nature and God ...

America’s Founding Fathers didn’t envision the U.S. as a ... There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud ...