In the early 1830s, French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville traveled the young United States, and compiled his observations ...

“I have looked [in America] for an image of the essence of democracy, its inclinations, its personality, its prejudices, its passions,” Tocqueville concluded. “My wish has been to know it if only to ...

Steven Schwartzberg shows how the 19th-century arguments for Native American expulsion went against the intentions of the ...

Two hundred years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America” scribbled a note to himself, “Say clearly somewhere that the women seem to me very superior to the men in ...

What makes America great is its constitutional system of government that diffuses power and encourages compromise.

Billionaire publishers who censor endorsements that offend Donald Trump confirm their scorching disregard for the traditions ...

After observing that “in America there is scarcely a hamlet ... provided an essential underpinning for American democracy. So did Alexis de Tocqueville. So did generations of writers for the ...

A friend told me a couple of weeks ago that she was so discouraged by the state of the world some days that she didn’t even feel like getting out of bed in the morning. It’s understandable.

We have been warned that runaway polarization will lead to a deterioration of democracy in the United States. In fact, 72% of ...