Seattle’s model for public campaign financing, its proponents argue, places stronger safeguards around taxpayer dollars. That ...

So much for American democracy and the concept that “no man is above the law.” There is no law and not a word in the ...

And while Georgia’s democracy recently received a colossal Russian push, we vow not to be the next domino to fall.  To ...

Programs to let investors influence the votes cast by their mutual funds at corporate annual meetings could complicate the contests, company leaders worry, hardly the goal of reformers.

Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can ...

Just days after the United Nations accused his military of brutally driving what eventually became 1 million Rohingya out of ...

One expert said election disinformation of any kind has a devastating impact on the local officials tasked with administering ...

The 29th session of the United Nation's flagship climate summit, also known as COP (Conference of Parties), just wrapped up in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. How did it all begin, how is it ...

In rehearsal at Lyric Opera of Chicago for my two-act work, “Blue.” I had gone to bed on election night with a mixed sense of ...

For a strong rendition of the pocketbook left, we can look to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. As Sanders put it the day after the election, "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic ...

Just days after the United Nations accused his military of brutally driving what eventually became 1 million Rohingya out of ...