Brett Hennig is co-founder and director of the Sortition Foundation. The one new democratic tool that should become common practice in U.S. cities, states and nationally, is sortition: the use of ...

Skeuomorphism involves designing things like digital interfaces that imitate physical elements. A lightbulb that flickers like a candle is ...

Protesters have disrupted proceedings in the House of Lords demanding the abolition of the unelected chamber. A group of around half a dozen people in the public gallery threw leaflets, shouted ...

The House of Lords was thrown into chaos this afternoon when protesters began shouting and throwing leaflets from the public viewing gallery. Labour peer Baroness Twycross was debating the 80th ...

Citizens’ assemblies are selected by sortition, which means members of the public are picked at random via a lottery. Supporters of this system argue it means a more representative sample of the ...

Citizens’ assemblies are selected by sortition, which means members of the public are picked at random via a lottery. Supporters of this mechanism argue it means a more representative sample of ...