Efforts to resist the proposals would mark a continuation of Republican attempts to curtail direct democracy in Missouri as ...

Voters are amending their state constitutions to protect reproductive freedom—and discovering the limitations of these ...

It traces the birth of democracy from the noise of the bazaars of Athens to the Parliament Houses that rule over us today.

In a year filled with elections, the state of democracy is thriving by many measures. But there are dark clouds on the ...

But the push to bring direct democracy back to Washington after a long hiatus had already scored three big wins before a ...

You know those people who tell us that “democracy is on the ballot”? They are misinformed. The word “democracy” isn’t ...

Republican lawmakers in Arizona placed a slew of constitutional amendments on the ballot this fall to limit the recourse ...

The left sees setbacks on abortion, drug legalization, minimum wage and election-process questions from coast to coast.

But the push to bring direct democracy back to Washington after a long hiatus had already scored three big wins before a single ballot was cast. Heywood’s group Let’s Go Washington began most ...

“I have looked [in America] for an image of the essence of democracy, its inclinations, its personality, its prejudices, its passions,” Tocqueville concluded. “My wish has been to know it if only to ...