Illinois representative Sean Casten tells VF that town halls are at the core of democracy because people “deserve to have ...

The power to schedule special elections is a gift to governors intent on doing political mischief.

Abraham Lincoln is credited with the saying, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of ...

David Hogg, a March For Our Lives activist and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, announced a plan to primary ...

Large majorities of U.S. adults support the role of the courts and Congress in serving as checks on presidential power, even ...

Governments do not generally relish the pesky interference by courts with their political agenda. And this applies regardless ...

Their views, the study’s authors note, were not as much divided by race and gender, but by socioeconomics and access to ...

We live in a representative democracy. That is, we elect people to represent us in Parliament House and act on our behalf. It ...

Special Representative Leonardo Santos Simão concludes his visit to Côte d'Ivoire, calls on all Ivorians to act together ...