Our traditional modes for understanding democratic decline—tyranny of the majority, corruption, erosion of trust, ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, adopting tactics of the minority will ... the Hastert Rule. The Hastert Rule, when Republicans are in the majority, instructs the speaker ...

John Thune (R-S.C.) pointed out that it’s not just kings who are inclined to rule like ... and that a majority – if unchecked – could trample the rights of the minority.” ...