Over at Common Ground Democracy, I’ve posted “The Senate Has Surrendered Its Constitutional Responsibilities,” explaining that the existing electoral system has caused the Senate to fail in its ...

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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill and political observers expressed outrage amid speculation swirling around Washington that ...

As the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on immigrants who are in the country illegally, officials and agencies took to social media to publicize the arrests. Photo: Christopher Dilts ...

Consequently, when moral and ethical persuasion fall upon deaf ears and indifference; when benevolence and conciliation run abreast of increasing aggravation and a ravenous desire for power; when ...

Democracy is not just threatened by disease. It is the disease. This idea, of despotism from the demos, has a distinguished pedigree. Plato and Aristotle thought that all, or nearly all, forms of ...