Harold Meyerson is editor at large of the American Prospect and an Op-Ed columnist for the Washington Post. The most basic principle of any democracy is that of majority rule, with minority rights ...
Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...
Our American government never was intended to be a democracy. It is a republic, for the excellent reason that the nation’s founders understood the danger in pure democracy. Pure democracy amounts to ...
One definition of "democracy," as listed in Webster's College Dictionary, is "majority rule." I have always thought that was the basic premise on which we held elections and decided on our laws in ...
Allow me to point out one factual error, one bad assumption and one act of duplicity in this letter. The letter writer states, "When I went to school, we were taught that our country was a democracy." ...
President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303 ...