For most Americans this election has brought exhaustion, divisiveness and, for many, fear and deep pain. After the election Tom Nichols wrote in The Atlantic: “Americans must stay engaged and make ...

College students everywhere know the feeling of watching their schedules fill up to the point where they struggle to fit even lunch into their day. Days get packed with labs, extracurriculars, ...

For some voting advocates this year, the political candidates and ballot issues are less important in many ways than generating an awareness of the fundamental right to vote and the power behind it.

Mr. Wikler is the author of the forthcoming “This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy.” See more of ...

Half of America is watching LA count its votes with a sense of déjà vu: The spectacle of a candidate who is leading on election night, suddenly falling behind when mail-in ballots are counted, is what ...

Direct democracy raised the minimum wage, legalized marijuana and overturned an abortion ban. An August ballot measure could ...

Most people think of democracy as meaning that when a majority of citizens wants something, the government does it. By that definition, however, democracy is impossible. It’s not just that democracy ...

While Democratic candidates suffered major losses in this year’s U.S. elections, elsewhere on the ballot voters supported liberal positions. In the wake of tightening federal and state restrictions on ...

Nationwide, the Democrats and Republicans have launched a blizzard of lawsuits and electoral laws designed to frustrate democracy. In the case of the Republicans, these are primarily efforts to keep ...