The last few years have been huge for sapphic representation in pop culture, from stars like Reneé Rapp and Gabby Windey coming out as lesbian to Chappell Roan blessing us with queer banger after ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political ...
More Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any other contest in our history (Hartig et al 2023). Yet in the same election—the lauded peak of our democratic participation—nearly the ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech ...
Welcome to openDemocracy’s weekly reader comments round-up. This is an opportunity for us to showcase some of the many carefully considered messages we receive on a range of topics. These comments are ...
Even in such a bitter, unusual election, roughly half of eligible Americans probably won't vote by the end of Election Day. In recent elections, turnout has ranged from about 50% to 60% of the ...
Sometimes it can be difficult to persuade young people to voluntarily fight and die for their country, but the definition of ...
There’s already one thing we can say for sure about this year’s elections: Not enough people are going to vote. Turnout in 2012 was 55 percent, down from the presidential election held four years ...
Daniel Allen is a patron of the Stolen and Missing Pets Alliance (Sampa). The government petitions to 'Reclassify the theft of a pet to a specific crime in its own right' and 'Pet Theft Reform: Amend ...