With so much turmoil in Washington and around the country these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the crises of the moment. These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term.

It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of the “color revolutions” in former Soviet Republics offers powerful ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

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