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The voting rights focused firm Law Forward and former Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold filed an amicus brief Monday in a ...

Thirty-seven California sheriffs issued a joint statement Monday opposing Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that seeks to dismantle the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission. ​ The sheriffs ...

The largest commercial advertiser in the U.S. in 2019 was Amazon at $6.88 billion. In comparison, the Democrats and Republicans spent $14 billion on the election! The result? The biggest spender won ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens vote for their government officials. But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is of a different opinion. “Of ...

We Americans live in a representative democracy. That’s a fundamental feature of public life in the United States, a part of who we are as a people. We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf.

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 ...

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 ...

Malapportionment undermines the principle of "one person, one vote." The U.S. Senate, for example, gives every state two ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Imagine that we've all -- all of us, all of society -- landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don't have any legacy systems from the United ...

Don’t you think it is wonderful to experience positive representative democracy in action? Two major pieces of federal legislation passed last year are having, and will have, positive impacts on our ...

When politicians act like managers rather than representatives, accountability, transparency and scrutiny suffer.