Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably ...

Twenty-six states have the initiative petition option. On the service it sounds like a good old American idea of democracy at work. Good intentions pave the road to hell. Our founding fathers were ...

BOGOTÁ — We are living in extraordinary times, there’s no doubt about it. And a part of the exceptional nature of our times is that we are witnessing the end of democracy, or rather, its progressive ...

Re: “Majority rule lacks the science,” Opinion, Dec. 23: Alan Preston makes a number of claims in this commentary. There is a lot to unpack. He states, “If a majority of voters decide that marijuana ...

During the reign of the mob in our nation’s 1910s, ’20s and ’30s, a member of the mob would go to a legitimate businessman and offer a deal. The mob would provide protection from violence if the ...

Main Street: Joe Biden may be in for a rerun of 1968, with a ruinous Democratic Chicago convention. Image: Jaime Carrero/ZUMA Press Wire The anti-Israel—and often antisemitic—protests sweeping college ...

LAS VEGAS -- -- LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas is building a museum about some of its founding fathers and most influential figures -- guys with names like Bugsy and Lefty. The mob museum will stand as frank ...

A teacher described an incident last year in which a fight between two students "degenerated into what people have described as a kind of mob rules" or a "prison riot" ...