Can the rise of a different kind of democracy help us to ease the collective feeling of Democratic Fatigue Syndrome?

The American president is chosen by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Here's why that is and how it works.

If the U.S. is truly committed to the principles of democracy, the Electoral College must be redefined to more accurately reflect the will of the people. A system allowing a candidate to win the ...

If California adopted proportional representation, its state legislature would have more political parties, resulting in more ...

Republican lawmakers in Arizona placed a slew of constitutional amendments on the ballot this fall to limit the recourse ...

Democratic Representative Adam Schiff will be the next U.S. Senator for California after handily defeating first-time ...

As election day approaches, it’s essential to revisit the fundamentals of our government, principles we learned in our civics ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch livestream playing Among Us. Yes, Twitch, the live streaming service for gaming, and ...

However in a representative democracy (such as ours) it is the elected representatives job to consider the entirety of the populations’ views and interests, not just those of the loudest and most ...

The premise of democracy can therefore be summed up into one bit of circular logic: You are too stupid to know what to do with your own resources, so you must elect a representative to do so, which ...

This stability, while perhaps offering relief when compared to our chaotic national politics, helps mask a deeply problematic institutional reality: Our state’s representative democracy isn’t ...

Caledon Myers is executive director of ProRep Coalition, which advocates for multiparty democracy through proportional representation.