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 ...

Our representative democracy rests on a fundamental principle: We, the people, have a right to participate in decisions that ...

In a representative democracy, the people pick their lawmakers. The lawmakers then decide what laws to enact. Over time, there has been an added layer. Lobbyists go to the lawmakers to advocate for ...

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

Utah Republican lawmakers say they'll convene a special session to put a constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot in an effort to ensure lawmakers have the ability to draw political boundaries.

The Northern Territory government has passed laws restricting ministerial documents from being accessed under Freedom of ...

By Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy The results of the November 2025 odd-year elections are well known. Democrats easily won the Virginia and New Jersey governor elections and, in a number of other state ...

By Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy The results of the November 2025 odd-year elections are well known. Democrats easily won the Virginia and New Jersey governor elections and, in a number of other state ...

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

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

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 ...