Such an effort to concentrate authority in an all-controlling executive has a striking parallel in Europe: the remaking of Hungary under its longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban. Since coming to ...

The early days of a new presidential administration attract a lot of attention from the media and ordinary Americans.

A plan to change the timeline for special elections, and most likely the election to replace Rep. Elise Stefanik, has been unveiled. Late Friday afternoon, lawmakers filed a bill sponsored by Senate ...

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, representing a transgender inmate, filed a lawsuit in D.C. challenging Trump’s executive order barring biological males ...

As President Trump and Elon Musk move to upend the government, labor unions that represent federal workers have seen their ...

Do ordinary citizens still have a voice in Washington and in their state capitals? Despite the cynicism of these times, my answer is, yes, we do … But we have to exercise it. I don’t ...

The Virginia NAACP, the Arlington Branch of the NAACP, and the Arlington Civic Federation each endorsed HB 2768 this week, calling on the Arlington County Board, Arlington Senators Barbara Favola and ...

The Keta Municipal Secretariat of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has officially inaugurated a nine-member ...

Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It’s that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues – or at least grasp ...

Facebook became popular in the mid-2000s as a space for friendship and connection, especially among young people. Despite its ignominious origin as a site ...

With equality for women and other marginalized groups under threat, leaders across sectors share insights and calls to action ...

Speaking to hundreds of protesters at a noon rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Wa. Zane Gustafson, author of the book “Polemic ...