Defining the Democracy Reform Movement. Scott Warren's interview series engages diverse thought leaders to elevate the ...

More than 70% of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s federal appropriation for 2025 of US$1.1 billion flows through to roughly 1,500 independently governed local stations, most of which are NPR ...

The robust debate so necessary to deliberations in a democracy is squelched as the views of a minority come to be seen as the ...

I call this the democratic in-between —a space of rupture, presence, and collective appearance. Drawing on Derrida, Anzaldúa, ...

On July 4, as Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Donald Trump signed into law what he calls the "One Big Beautiful Bill", a piece of legislation that encapsulates many of the systemic ...

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was enacted to strengthen Congress’s check on the president’s war-making authority, but has been largely ignored by presidents, while the proposed War ...

From rank-choice voting to reconciliation, American democracy is headline news. Let’s talk about it.

The Supreme Court confirmation process has become a raw power struggle, with both parties abandoning shared rules and norms, ...

Contracts between the state government and public-employee unions — agreements that involve taxpayer money and employees who ...

This report argues that public options for AI, along with utility-style regulation, will strengthen national security by ...

A Heartland scene: Democracy writ small Editorials and columns Jul 10, 2025 JAMIE STIEHM Jamie Stiehm The village egg toss on the Fourth of July sings of democracy to me.