Five former Treasury Secretaries issued a stark warning calling out Trump’s latest moves as a direct threat to American democracy’s financial backbone.

Such an effort to concentrate authority in an all-controlling executive has a striking parallel in Europe: the remaking of Hungary under its longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban. Since coming to ...

At the root of Trumpism's rapid ascendance, and the pitiful resistance to it, is a profound failure of imagination ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find that your fundamental right to influence state policy through citizen-led initiatives has been effectively nullified. This ...

Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative ...

I love the fact that South Dakota was the first state in the nation to empower its citizens to initiate and refer laws, columnist Terry Woster writes.

Elon Musk’s involvement in government affairs is an unprecedented, extralegal appointment and a direct affront to democratic ...

The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary ...

Lee Drutman explores the “two-party doom loop” of the U.S. political system and how proportional representation can break the ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...