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

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.

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

The 2026 midterm elections should be the American people’s next best opportunity to issue a verdict on the direction of the ...

Can a majority vote to end democracy? If it can, democracy would no longer exist. But if it can’t, then not all political ...

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 ...

Denver businessman Kent Thiry says he’s not abandoning the ideal of independent redistricting, but he doesn’t blame blue ...