Many people say the most important right we have is the right to vote. Voting gives you the ability to make your needs, wishes, values, opinions, and positions known and counted. Voting gives people a voice in the government that represents them.
How are voting rights different in countries around the world? Even when we have the right to vote, do we always have the ability to vote? Does everyone have that ability, or just some people?
Read MoreSince the beginning of time, people have used violence to resolve disputes, disagreements, and conflicts. At any given time, war is happening all across the globe.
Read MoreWhy is there so much talk lately about affordability, especially when it comes to politics? What does it mean that affordability is “the political word of the moment”? What does the word affordability mean to you?
Read MoreThe word “activism” typically evokes images of large protests with people holding signs and marching in the streets; however, activism takes many shapes and forms.
Read MoreMigration, the movement of people away from their home to somewhere else, is a fundamental part of human history. Migration has always happened. But why do people move from home to somewhere else–crossing cities and borders, countries and continents?
Read MoreWhat is the “rule of law?” Is it a rule? Is it a law? Is it both, or neither? And what does it have to do with democracy?
Read MoreWhat is democracy? What does democracy mean to you and to your country?
In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about democracy. In the United States, scholars, elected officials, the media, and many voters have expressed fear that our democracy is slipping away, with those concerns regularly populating our news and social media feeds. These conversations are also happening due to the decline in democracy and rise in authoritarianism in countries around the world.
But what is democracy? What are the ideals of democracy? Has the US, or other countries, reached these ideals? What are the elements of democracy and what do we stand to lose if democracy, or components of it, are diminished or dismantled?
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