A 'No Kings' Day of Defiance had a peaceful, impassioned crowd chanting "Dump Trump' and carrying signs such as "Democracy ...

The framers of the Constitution added ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights, to protect individuals’ rights from being infringed by the government. A democratic government is one in which the ...

As we consider bringing ballot initiatives to more U.S. states, what can we learn from the past century of experience with ...

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

The President has kept the upper hand so far, partly because of his bully pulpit, and partly because he has remained relatively understated.

We are looking ahead with urgency and resolve. We are building power to defend and expand the promise of America for the next ...

The European Union remains divided even after eighteen months of Israel’s war on Gaza, oscillating between sharp criticism ...

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

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

Considering the proliferation of sophisticated surveillance technologies such as spyware, South Africa has a unique opportunity to implement a meaningful surveillance safeguard that can serve as a ...

Over the last decade, Modi has persistently trimmed the autonomy of every institution of representative democracy in India, subordinating them to a direct form of representation embodied in his ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...