2019-09-02T10:02:50-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fce/20190902103704001_hd.jpgFormer Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor ...

David Debold is Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington, D.C. Americans who believe democracy works best when public officials understand and serve the needs of their constituents can ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, the health of American democracy has come under great scrutiny. Polling routinely shows that Americans are concerned that democratic institutions aren’t working as well as ...

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 ...

The organization “The General Strike” aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US ...

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Thanks to the Tea Party movement, we are hearing references to the framers, founding fathers, and Sons of Liberty more than I can remember in my lifetime. Unfortunately, this uptick of early republic ...

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally opened the door to a long overdue discussion of converting our federal representative democracy to a direct democracy, now ...

John Keane receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Simon Tormey and John Keane are Associates of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) Whatever is happening in the field of party politics ...

A system of competing political parties that gives citizens a voice is widely considered one of the core principles of liberal democracy, and this feature is common to a wide range of countries around ...

I often hear people argue (often quite militantly) that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that’s a false dichotomy. A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American ...