Both books name and discuss an array of challenges wrought by our emergent era of digital democracy: the illusion of direct access to candidates and elected officials, the spread of fake news and ...

All the books on this list call for less inequality, more fairness, less social media, more facts. Easier said than done. But the potential end of our democracy is an urgent matter.

At the Paris AI Action Summit, Allen argued that DOGE represents the real-time implementation of an extreme ideological ...

About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

Social media design influences human behavior, and the Big Tech platforms use it to boost profits – and their owners’ ...

You write in your book about American democracy reaching a breaking point, and this being an unprecedented moment. But critics say there was, for example, more political violence in the late 1960s.

Adam Gopnik reviews “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America,” by Heather Cox Richardson, and “The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives,” by Brook Manville and Josiah Ober.

Schools banning books fail to teach history needed to keep democracy strong By Boaz Dvir, Penn State 1 of 2 | Banned books are on display at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., in September.

But Musk and Zuckerberg are not delivering democracy or improving communities — they are not even running social organizations. They are doing something closer to the polar opposite.

His latest book, with Miles Rapoport, is “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.” Two Cheers for Politics Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening ― and Our Best Hope ...