A progressive group has unveiled an action plan for revving up political organizing on the left and resisting former ...

The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king.

The American president is chosen by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Here's why that is and how it works.

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I strongly believe that federal intervention is the only way to mitigate voter suppression in Texas and beyond.

My first year in Congress, 1965, was a watershed year. Among many noteworthy pieces of legislation, that was the year we ...

Kentucky League of Women Voters again documents how the General Assembly is undermining democracy and public participation in the lawmaking process.

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Our representative democracy rests on a fundamental principle: We, the people, have a right to participate in decisions that ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

The prosecution, which is investigating the alleged intervention of the nomination, called the arrest warrant for a key ...

This stability, while perhaps offering relief when compared to our chaotic national politics, helps mask a deeply problematic institutional reality: Our state’s representative democracy isn’t ...