In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

The organization “The General Strike” aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US ...

Americans appear to believe Congress does not represent their interests. Polling shows that 75 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job, with supermajority disapproval ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

When the Founders created the United States of America, they wanted to form a representative democracy to protect the new nation from becoming an autocracy or theocracy. In the beginning, only white ...

If you’re at all like me, it probably feels like we’ve already been through at least three different presidential election years so far this year. And given the pace of events, it’s a good bet that ...

Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy as well as direct democracy, and "Republic" was used to ...

Representation is an essential but troubled element of American democracy. The entire US political system is built on an idea of representation. Indeed, representative government is guaranteed to ...

A gerrymandering fight reveals how far Trump will go to avoid electoral accountability. Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety inside the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Monday, ...

We Americans live in a representative democracy. That’s a fundamental feature of public life in the United States, a part of who we are as a people. We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) conducts a ceremonial swearing-in of House members on Friday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Column by Philip Bump Exit polling suggests that about a ...

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