Sen. Tom Cotton spoke about the dangers of mob rule on the Senate floor Tuesday. "There must be consequences for mob violence. Because if you give the mob an inch, it’ll take a mile," he said.

While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that ...

BOGOTÁ — We are living in extraordinary times, there’s no doubt about it. And a part of the exceptional nature of our times is that we are witnessing the end of democracy, or rather, its progressive ...

Sure, Ken Starr’s a creep who’s made a career as the right wing’s legal hatchet man. But when he told the California Supreme Court yesterday that it couldn’t throw out Proposition 8, he was probably ...

“Mobocracy” is a word that should inspire fear. Increasingly, however, it’s a reality of life in 21st-century America. Regardless of the outcome of elections, Democrats intend to use the mob to retain ...

Twenty-six states have the initiative petition option. On the service it sounds like a good old American idea of democracy at work. Good intentions pave the road to hell. Our founding fathers were ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett Abraham Lincoln warned us: Mob ...