In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

Representative democracy promises representation, but majorities still rule. Ulrich Fromy argues that markets give individuals more direct choice, accountability, and control.

Most people would accept without scrutiny that secrecy poses a threat to modern democracies. In fact, the masthead of the Washington Post declares that “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” However, for ...

A gerrymandering fight reveals how far Trump will go to avoid electoral accountability. Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety inside the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Monday, ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

So begins Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution. Over the years, that sentence has not received much scrutiny, nor inspired fractious public debate, as have, for example, the Constitution’s ...

The Democracy Solutions Summit provides a space to confront biases that can hold women back—both in how voters perceive them and their leadership in the democracy reform space. Every election cycle, ...

The first problem is conceptual and fatal: Representative democracy is simply not democratic. One person cannot perfectly represent another’s freedom, desires, needs, or individuality. Consider an ...