Tag: Democracy

Voting is a major issue on the right and the left. Both sides want free and fair elections, but they have different ideas of what the problem is with our current election model.

Both sides are concerned about democracy being under threat — but often for very different reasons.

One testimony from the hearings has been particularly overlooked, but no words from these hearings will end up mattering more.

The public has a new opportunity to test their hypotheses about how to strengthen U.S. democracy — all while potentially winning thousands of dollars. Stanford University and collaborators are inviting submissions to the crowdsourced Strengthening Democracy Challenge . Submissions must be...

This video and commentary originally appeared on National Conversation Project's #ListenFirstFriday project. A recent academic study found that America is now more politically polarized than at the end of the Reconstruction Era, following the Civil War. An even more recent opinion piece...