Participating between elections has turned into an obstacle course, and most of us fail it for reasons that have nothing to ...

Mnangagwa signs law extending his rule to 2030, scrapping direct presidential vote – Zimbabwe News Now HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed into law constitutional amendments extending ...

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, recently delivered a paper ...

A good analysis of the controversies that play out in the senate shows that the personal ambitions of many senators becloud ...

Ernie Dumas, a venerated Arkansas political journalist, has an opinion essay and historical essay--that's the same piece--in the latest Arkansas Times magazine that you really ought to read. The ...

Bill Kopsky, direct democracy fan. After much confusion-mongering and misdirection from Republican officials and other political powers that be, it’s understandable that Arkansans are scratching their ...

At the national level, petitioning Congress peaked in the 19th century but has declined since then. In the 19th century disenfranchised citizens, including women before suffrage, free blacks, and ...

Voting rights activists protest on Oct. 15, 2025, outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court prepared to hear arguments in the case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call ...

If we were to identify the most sacrosanct dogma of Western modernity—the one that no one questions—it would undoubtedly be representative democracy. We automatically assume that it is the best form ...

Since 1906, Montana has been able to make laws two ways — through our elected representatives and through direct democracy (or the peoples’ vote — ballot issues). Initially, ballot issues were ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...