What might have appeared as dysfunction at the state Capitol was literally representative democracy in action.

Murrieta resident Brian Nash, 45, formally entered the race — becoming the first CA48 candidate from Riverside County.

President Donald Trump has re-upped his call for Congress to send to his desk by July 4 the massive tax and immigration package that is pending in the Senate, saying in a social media post that ...

Below is the press release following the cabinet meeting held on May 28, 2025.

Hegseth was angered by his exclusion and resigned from the Guard. That experience remains with him as he attempts to reshape ...

Since February, Marco Rubio has traveled to several countries, helped mediate peace talks between Ukraine and Russia (and ...

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

I have come to think that representative systems in a hierarchy are probably the least-bad implementation of democracy/republic. If I only am electing local members, and then they are responsible ...

Forget the midterms. The fight to bring Trumpism down runs through 2025’s elections.

Predictably, the American mainstream news media were largely (if not totally) silent on Trump’s threat to use government ...

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

On the other hand, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter or a constitution contrary to a democracy as a government that is ruled according to the ...