Editor’s note: Each year, nearly 27,000 high school students compete for more than $2 million in scholarships and incentives in the annual Voice of Democracy essay contest sponsored by Veterans of ...

The plaint heard during the French Revolution is still widely applicable today. But perhaps even more pertinent would be a variation: “Oh, democracy, what travesties are perpetrated in thy name!” ...

Too many Americans are quick to claim their rights as citizens without recognizing that these rights come with responsibilities. These two concepts are inseparable. You do not deserve your rights ...

Following the events of Jan. 6, 2021 — when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to interrupt the certification process of the 2020 presidential election — experts began to ...

On Monday, we ran Brad Smith’s skeptical essay about election reforms, titled Too Much to Ask: Voting Reforms Can Only Do So Much, which I blogged about on Monday. Yesterday, Josh Sellers published an ...

The Orland Park Chamber will host the bee, where middle school students will test their civics knowledge and compete for a ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wph96 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wph96.3 This volume and the Brookings series it launches share an origin ...

PITTSFIELD — Fiona Clary, a ninth-grade student at Miss Hall’s School and daughter of James W. and Sheela S. Clary of West Stockbridge, has won several first place awards in the Veterans of Foreign ...

Emmalee M. D’Aniello, daughter of Chris and Anne D’Aniello of Great Barrington and a senior at Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, is the first place winner in the Veterans of ...