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 ...

Voters gain when a field of candidates includes talented people with good ideas, the skills to work collaboratively to carry them out and an understanding of issues faced by people whose voices have ...

A constitutional amendment would give Congress and state legislatures the authority to set reasonable limits on campaign spending.

Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

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

COLUMN. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is banking on Socialist support to pass the social-security budget – a make-or-break ...

A great deal of the public discussion following the Golden Isles by-election has focused heavily on the state of the voter register, with senior political figures pointing to the problem ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says “decisive” actions by the United States, including the seizure of an ...

Tonga’s next prime minister will determine whether power concentrates among nobility or whether Tonga retains a government ...

The suspension of LAHDC and delayed elections have left Ladakh without democratic representation, intensifying public anger, ...

Israel has a representative office in Taipei, known as the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office, which de facto functions ...