A new report shows Australians don’t want to be reduced to merely voters. They want a democracy that listens, including ...

American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly ...

President Donald Trump has challenged our system of checks and balances. He shows little appreciation for Congress and the ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

I often ask myself why Armenians, both in the homeland and the diaspora, remain so passive regarding the extraordinary ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

Shortly after arriving in Belém, Brazil, for the United Nations’ annual climate conference, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island wasted no time stating the obvious. “Greetings to everyone from ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley Rep. Adam Gray (CA-13) was one of six Democrats to vote in favor of the funding bill that will end the nation's longest government shutdown. The bill passed by a vote ...

Rep. Mike Quigley joins us to discuss efforts to end the nation's longest government shutdown, it's impact on Illinois and what's being done to help families affected by SNAP cuts. He also addresses ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – The government shutdown is 36 days old and counting, making it the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Representative Cleo Fields is holding town halls across the ...

I have noted an uptick in various persons reminding me (and you) that the United States is not a democracy. I've heard it from political panels on TV, during interviews with politicians, and most ...