Convening a panel of five experts in constitutional law, the courts and government relations, Congresswoman Becca Balint ...

As Northeast and North Central Nebraskans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we take note of the 2024 Best Countries ...

Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with ...

Make this July Fourth your D-Day. Decide to Leave a Legacy. Let’s celebrate Independence Day with a commitment to working to ...

Becca Balint, joined by state leaders, will be at the Winooski High School theater tonight to speak about the future of ...

Indeed, one ought to see representative democracy as a front for capitalism. The issue confronting us is overwhelmingly one of narrative inadequacy. People are outraged by contingencies, ...

Elected executives – the president, governors, and mayors – no longer have effective authority over the operations of ...

In the introduction to their 2011 book, The Future of Representative Democracy, Sonia Alonso, John Keane, and Wolfgang Merkel note that Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of representative democracy, ...

One day into Trump’s first term, I saw thousands of children learning what democracy looks like at the Women’s March.

The reason why we call this view anti-representative democracy, rather than direct democracy, is that we wish to emphasize the antagonistic component of this view, that is, the claim that ...

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, ...

A mass meeting of the "Regular Representative Democracy," as it was named in the call, as opposed to the "close corporations" of Tammany and Mozart, was held at Cooper Institute last evening.