PITTSBURGH -- In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey's Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the Capitol. The ...

Latin American democracy is being put to the test in Brazil and Venezuela. At stake is whether the left-wing government in either country can countenance the idea of legitimate opposition. The day after losing Brazil's presidential election, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro had his personal ...

About 2,500 years ago back in Ancient Greece, a guy by the name of Socrates started to think that this brand-new idea called democracy might have some shortcomings. He compared a democracy to a ship. If the crew voted for the captain, you’d get a much different outcome than if the passengers ...

On the ballot in November the Utah legislature has put before voters a constitutional amendment that would make Utahn's fight against data centers even more difficult.  This spring, the Stratos Project was revealed to Utahns. As proposed, it would be the largest data center complex in the ...

I spend a lot of my time thinking about what isn't working. That probably isn't surprising. As a university leader, much of my job involves identifying problems, finding solutions, and figuring out how we can do things better. There are enrollment numbers to watch, budgets to balance, ...

With less than two weeks until the midterm elections, things look bad for President Donald Trump's Republican Party. Generic polls show significant movement away from Republicans and toward Democrats since Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris by 50% to 48% two years ...