These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are longer-running developments that threaten the health of our representative democracy. I want to lay them out in one place, so that the most ...

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 ...

Elon Musk at an Oval Office press availability with President Donald Trump on Tuesday: "If you asked the founders today, and said, what do you think of the way things have turned out? We have this ...

Democratic California Rep. Robert Garcia appeared on CNN Wednesday and called for “actual weapons” against Elon Musk, ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing a “department of government efficiency” (DOGE) to downsize government ...

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The bill sought to give Gov. Kathy Hochul the power to merge election dates, leading minority party lawmakers like New York ...

This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, ...

A bill working it's way through the Indiana Statehouse will now afford more protection to off-duty reserve officers who respond to emergency situations.

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

But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th century BC, differs significantly from contemporary representative democracy. In Athenian democracy, only male ...