I'm Ben Sheehan, and this is "Civics Made Easy". If you didn't sleep through history or philosophy class, you may remember ...

The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...

While I was in Athens, a Palestinian democracy activist from East Jerusalem, Samer Sinijlawi, reached out to me with a ...

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Charles Barnes marches through downtown St. Louis carrying an American flag during the 'No Kings' protest on Saturday, June 15, 2025. Demonstrators made their way through downtown demanding the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms. This has ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

Director Asghar Farhadi slammed Ben Affleck's "Argo" at the Rio Film Festival, calling it a "Hollywood thing" that portrays ...

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The concept of democracy, and its unique form in the United States, can be difficult to understand. This free online comic from the Center for Cartoon Studies will allow students to visualize how the ...

I have a lot of quotes here (I can’t get them all in one 1,000-word article), some rather lengthy, some not so long, but all very interesting to those who enjoy history and want to know what our ...

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