Fifty-six percent of Americans say democracy is performing poorly. Yet roughly two-thirds still call it the best form of ...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images. The Democracy for All Project is a multiyear collaboration between the Kettering Foundation and Gallup. This annual survey is based on the responses of more than ...

Pictured here in the center of the group (from left to right) are Nada Zohdy, Wai Wai Nu, Hong Hoang, and Oluseon Onigbinde at Kettering’s Solidarity across Borders event. In late July 2026, the ...

Germany's far-right surge isn't a local anomaly. Gábor Scheiring argues it's a warning sign of a deeper democratic crisis and ...

Strengthen community voices, mutuality, and collective action for greater citizen engagement and influence over local problem-solving and government. Democracy relies on healthy, inclusive communities ...

Andrew L. Whitehead is professor of sociology at Indiana University Indianapolis, one of the foremost scholars of Christian nationalism in the United States, and a Charles F. Kettering Foundation ...

Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, which she helped found in 2019, and a Charles F. Kettering Foundation senior fellow.

There is a mystery coiled up inside the latest survey results from The People’s Role in American Democracy, the latest report from the Democracy for All Project, a joint endeavor between the Charles F ...

Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, recently said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” He’s not exaggerating ...

The explicit aim of Project 2025, which has guided much of the early work of the Trump administration, is to infuse biblical principles across the federal government. Calls to protect Christianity, ...

When Donald Trump was president, he lashed out at the media, responded to critical coverage by describing it as “fake news,” and called journalists “the enemy of the American people.” Project 2025 ...