NED will honor Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart with the 2026 Champion of Freedom Democracy Award at a ceremony in Miami, ...

For citizens in a representative democracy such as our own, participation in public life—including voting—is both a right and ...

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 ...

The U.S. Is Both a Republic and a Democracy Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The disagreement can be traced to paradoxes in four areas: Mandates, authority, institutional autonomy, and competence ...

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 ...

I'm Ben Sheehan, and this is "Civics Made Easy". If you didn't sleep through history or philosophy class, you may remember ...