With citizen initiated ballot measures getting harder and harder to do, we are losing the only tools we have to directly ...

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...

Prominent lawyers in criminal and civil law and across the private and public sectors concur that a dearth of lawyers, especially in their early careers, present barriers to accessing legal services ...

There has been much talk of late about the institution of American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. This ...

Apparently, the froggies attending the No Kings protests weren’t aware that we’ve been slowly brought to a boil even before a ...

Nearly a century ago, in his poem Suchotona (Awareness), the reclusive Bengali poet Jibanananda Das captured the world’s deepest wound, “The world is now afflicted with a deeper and deeper illness!” ...

The rapid dismantling of U.S. democracy has added a new urgency to these gatherings. The forces undermining democracies ...

President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced ...

This president is the embodiment of rule by the people—in ways good and ill.

"The philanthropic nonprofit model is simply not up to the job of playing the unifying civic role that is the ultimate ...

“The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the face of the earth.” — Abraham Lincoln (16th US President in his globally acclaimed less than two minutes ...

A wide majority of Filipinos continue to believe in democracy as the best form of government, but fewer are satisfied with ...