Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, introduced Senate Resolution 252 to formally establish September 2019 as National Democracy Month. This month will initiate stronger support for Democracy in America. Research has shown a dramatic decline in the belief in our democratic system and its founding principles. A majority of Americans…

Forty-two United States Senators, list attached, co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to begin restoring strong US support for our democracy.

The League of Women Voters, along with four respected former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders (Bob Dole, George Mitchell, Trent Lott and Tom Daschle) and other leading Americans, are taking action to establish September as National Democracy Month. “Democracy is central to the American experience, and now is the time to celebrate our fundamental rights with…

U.S. Senate Creates “National Democracy Month” and Calls for a Re-emphasis on the Importance of Democracy to our Freedom and Way of Life With the hope of halting waning support for democracy, a bipartisan group of political icons and former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders – Bob Dole, George Mitchell, Tom Daschle and Trent Lott– in…

Starting decades ago, many people, especially in the universities, lost faith in the Western civilization narrative. They stopped teaching it, and the great cultural transmission belt broke. Now many students, if they encounter it, are taught that Western civilization is a history of oppression.

For at least half a century, the bedrock of confidence in democracy’s future has been its unquestioned stability in Europe and North America. The United States and Britain survived the near-total obliteration of democracy by the fascist powers in World War II. Then the re-establishment and rapid consolidation of liberal democracies across Western Europe—and especially…