We are in a moment when, at first glance, it seems that democracy must be saved from the people, not by them. We have seen ...

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

All eligible voters choose them. A legitimate alternative to the word “republic” is “representative democracy.” Somehow, Republicans are afraid of that term. The recent letter that ...

A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term.

“According to the UN definition, genocide includes acts intended to destroy a group, in whole or in part, and tearing families apart fits the bill. Honestly, neither political party seems to have the ...

Now’s the time to make the House more representative. We’ve got ideas.

President Donald Trump’s firing of as many as 17 federal inspectors general from is another attempt to remove the type of ...

Are there limits to our understanding of the representative spirit of Indian democracy? Representative democracy is a system wherein citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...