The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has led to a push for citizens initiatives to enshrine abortion rights. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images In August 2022, a statewide referendum in ...

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Younger generations are justifiably critical of a government that has saddled them with this debt burden, and many of them have lost faith in the capitalist system. A recent survey by the CATO ...

First of all, direct democracy, the democratic regime I’m thinking about, is not paradise on earth. It’s not the perfect regime, and I don’t know what perfect regime means. Cornelius Castoriadis [1] ...

It was probably just bad timing. The online research I was doing for a literary project was way outside my comfort and time zones. It concerned a lynching in Georgia in 1915. Not my usual focus, and ...

CEO of Sapio Analytics, an artitificially intelligent government advisory firm, and co-founder of 1Voice, a US-based citizen voice platform. Representative democracy is a form of government where the ...

Guests: Mary Frances Berry, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; Joe Davidson, an editor at The Washington Post, and Nat Irvin, president of Future Focus 2020. Friday's topics: A ...

The peevish dweebs in the Arkansas Legislature love to keep all the power in their own grubby, micromanaging little hands. So it’s no surprise that they absolutely hate the recent trend of ballot ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has outlined his vision for governance on Mars, proposing direct democracy as the foundation for its future colonists. What Happened: In response to a discussion on X ...