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 ...
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 ...
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.
In recent days it's become clear that the majority of Californians are in favor of Proposition 50, the redistricting measure ...
"The philanthropic nonprofit model is simply not up to the job of playing the unifying civic role that is the ultimate ...
The surge in antisemitism seen in America today threatens the Jewish community and the nation’s democracy as a whole, and it ...
Designed to uphold judicial independence, the Code of Conduct could result in suppressing it.
A wide majority of Filipinos continue to believe in democracy as the best form of government, but fewer are satisfied with ...