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

Are We Losing

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...
President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced ...
Elections stripped of ideology signal the rise of “marketisation” of politics—parties become brands, candidates turn into ...
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.
Designed to uphold judicial independence, the Code of Conduct could result in suppressing it.
Newspapers and magazines were shut down. Journalists were killed; they worked on the sly and underground, and were locked up.
"This is the best result for D66 ever," 38-year-old party leader Rob Jetten told a crowd of party insiders and media after he ...
The centrist Democrat 66 (D66) party has won parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, just ahead of far-right firebrand ...
Cog editor Cloe Axelson interviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and her dog Bailey, who's dressing up as Stephen Colbert for ...
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, what we might call ...