When Hempstead High School senior Saul Martel was just 8 years old, he helped his father become a naturalized U.S. citizen. Martel downloaded applications, helped his father study and guided him ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor urges better civics education. The justice criticized law schools that fail ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, questioning whether Americans understand the difference between a king and a president, told a New York Law School crowd Tuesday that improved ...

Our collective future depends on what is happening in our classrooms. That’s not exaggeration — it’s fact. Because the lessons taught there shape how young people see their place in the world — and ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evolving toward something better.

One in five Europeans says a dictatorship might be preferable to democracy in some circumstances, according to a survey conducted in five countries late last year that found broad frustration with how ...

The redistricting referendum now being voted on in Virginia is not about Jim Crow. It is about Donald Trump and Virginia’s role in determining the future of American democracy. A campaign flyer that ...