The Fairness Project says lawmakers across 15 states have filed 148 bills this year designed to make citizen-led ballot initiatives more difficult to pass.

When the Founders proposed government by the consent of the governed, they did not mean the adoption of policies most citizens abhor.

Playing with representative democracy is a delicate game, one that can evoke strong emotions and foster resentments. Democrats have lost two elections in 2000 and 2016 where they won the popular vote ...

Gerrymandering is a symptom of the failure of representative democracy. Political minorities are surrounded by others who ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the Proposition 50 redistricting proposal in California. Also: Erasing history.

By BILL FIANDER Insight Kansas. Poor Elbridge Gerry. He wasn’t even a fan of this. Toeing his party’s line, he approved a ...

The organization “The General Strike” aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US ...

The stakes of the current redistricting debate threaten the health of our representative democracy. This is not hyperbole. Most elementary definitions of democracy indicate that free and fair ...

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 of ...

The Donald Trump-inspired “gerrymandering wars” spreading across the country portend chaos for the most fundamental pillar of ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...