Barack Obama returned to his hometown Thursday to offer up his solutions for bridging deepening political divides across the U.S., with the former president calling on the next generation of ...

"We're all going to have to work towards a renewed commitment to pluralist principles, because the alternative is what we've seen here in the United States and in many democracies around the globe.

To attach The New York Times’ decision to print Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed to the legacy of rabbinic pluralism is to desecrate the majesty of God. NEW YORK (JTA) — It was only a matter of time before we ...

Barack Obama, during remarks delivered before the 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago, called out the polarized political atmosphere exploited by money-grubbers in the media and said what America really ...

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Our deeply divided country can agree on one fact – the American political system is dysfunctional. The basic responsibilities of government are not working to provide legislative solutions to ...

A few well-respected academics carried that argument further by suggesting that the failure of democracy to emerge in the Muslim world was due in large part to Muslim culture, which they claimed was ...

Across party lines, 84% of survey participants say democracy is in crisis or facing serious challenges, with distinct divides ...

I happily pass this along to you and urge you to support the rights of the non-Orthodox in Israel. The following comes from Anat Hoffman, the head of the Israeli Religious Action Center of Reform ...

The political transitions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya seem to be in a precarious state. Governments based on a democratic mandate are in power and new constitutions are being written, but the advent ...