While it's roots date back hundreds of years, Town Meeting Day is a fascinating example of modern civics at play in the 21st century.

State Rep. Kim Hammer’s proposals appear to violate the Arkansas Constitution, which only allows legal restrictions on the ...

Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political struggle between authoritarianism and democracy.

The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an ...

A House committee decided to flout democratic processes, deciding to vote on a bill without input from the public due to icy ...

A year after Ohioans overwhelmingly voted to legalize recreational marijuana, lawmakers are pushing through Senate Bill 56 (SB 56), a sweeping rollback that effectively guts key ...

President Donald Trump is moving to give the White House direct control of independent federal regulators such as the ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

A divided House committee on Monday, February 17, 2025 advanced two bills to regulate how signatures are gathered in Arkansas ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

Arkansans’ ability to participate in the democratic process came into focus during the fifth week of the 2025 legislative ...