A conversation with scholar Larry Diamond about the state of U.S. democracy.

Will our democracy be saved by our president’s sheer incompetence? No longer can anyone seriously doubt that democracy is under siege. Trump and his minions have eliminated from government ...

Cathy E. Decker, 69, of Roaring Spring, passed away Friday, May 2, 2025, at home. She was born Aug. 29, 1955, in Altoona, daughter of the late Harold and Catherine (Westover) Conley. Surviving are ...

Atlanta Braves fans are done pretending the Freddie Freeman decision was a good one. Yes, Freeman wanted a lot of money, but it's also clear he preferred to stay a Brave. Whether Alex Anthopoulos ...

In those days, the National Endowment for Democracy and the State Department played vital roles supporting nascent democracies, from Eastern Europe to Latin America to Asia and Africa. We are now ...

If you hang around with MAGA people, don’t say the D word. Democracy. They hate it when you do that. The latest example was earlier this week, when we ran a column on our website from our sister ...

If the president can violate any law, and even ignore court orders, then we are no longer a constitutional democracy. The word for that is a dictatorship, and it is chilling to realize how close ...

The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference? THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK If you hang ...