The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: Democrats capitulating to Trump.

That the threats to democracy are diverse may not be a great consolation to those worried about where it is headed, and there ...

Four years after a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol, Congress certified his 2024 victory in a seamless ceremony ...

Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest ...

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The first events reflect Carter’s climb up the political ladder ...

Democracy Erodes From the Top. That succinct conclusion, summarizing observations in dozens of countries, is the title of the most informative recent book on the crisis in democracy, published ...

I fear for the future of American democracy. This is not simply a reaction to the Nov. 5 election, but a serious worry that I have had for several years; indeed, in August, I published a book on ...

Jagdeep Dhankhar, who was speaking at a convention of organic farmers in Medak district of Telangana, also underscored that dialogue is the only way to address problems in a democracy.

Denise Ho Wan-sze, a Canto-pop singer and political activist, has been banned from performing at one of Hong Kong’s top theatres next week, just days after a pro-Beijing newspaper accused her of ...

The hard lesson of 2024 is that liberals spent too much time fretting that Donald Trump would subvert democracy if he lost and not enough that Trump would win a free and fair election. We can ...

Across four continents, incumbent leaders were swept from office in elections that often sparked violence but ultimately achieved a central function of democracy: the orderly transfer of power in ...

The G7 is the “steering committee of the free world”, according to Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser. If so, the free world has a problem. The majority of G7 ...