As Northeast and North Central Nebraskans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we take note of the 2024 Best Countries report from U.S. News & World Report.

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...

In the introduction to their 2011 book, The Future of Representative Democracy, Sonia Alonso, John Keane, and Wolfgang Merkel note that Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of representative democracy, ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...

I have come to think that representative systems in a hierarchy are probably the least-bad implementation of democracy/republic. If I only am electing local members, and then they are responsible ...

As American democracy faces unprecedented challenges, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is leading a movement to resist and rebuild. Through its Magna ...