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 ...

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

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that “decisive” actions by the United States, including the ...

When Donald Trump won reelection in November 2024, much of the American establishment responded with a shrug. After all, Trump had been democratically elected, even winning the popular vote. And ...

Katerina Monogiou emphasizes that Greece stands at a pivotal crossroads, where the choices made today will determine the nation’s future strength and ...

Today, Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Don Beyer (VA-08) and Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced bicameral legislation to bring ranked choice voting (RCV) to congressional races across ...

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

Readers respond: Football program not essential to PSU Dec. 8, 2025, 7:00 a.m. Ritorto is the student representative on the Portland Public Schools Board of Directors.

Across the arid pampas of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chilean nitrate ...

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

If Connecticut is to flourish in the decades ahead, we must recommit to the simplest democratic act: talking to one another.

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