In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

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 ...

If you’re at all like me, it probably feels like we’ve already been through at least three different presidential election years so far this year. And given the pace of events, it’s a good bet that ...

When the Founders created the United States of America, they wanted to form a representative democracy to protect the new nation from becoming an autocracy or theocracy. In the beginning, only white ...

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 ...

We Americans live in a representative democracy. That’s a fundamental feature of public life in the United States, a part of who we are as a people. We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf.

Americans appear to believe Congress does not represent their interests. Polling shows that 75 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job, with supermajority disapproval ...

Growing up, I was taught that the United States has a representative democracy. From town councils in every corner of our country to the office of the President, we supposedly have a government where ...

Representation is an essential but troubled element of American democracy. The entire US political system is built on an idea of representation. Indeed, representative government is guaranteed to ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Imagine that we've all -- all of us, all of society -- landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don't have any legacy systems from the United ...