New York City has elected a democratic socialist as its next mayor. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won with a progressive platform focused on making the city more affordable, through free bus service, ...

As prominent progressive politicians tout their democratic socialist views, many Americans are wondering: What does that even mean? Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

NEW YORK -- When Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Grace Mausser had just graduated from college. "I was very much a part of the liberal establishment -- more on ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...