Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

When Kiki was imprisoned, she was told she wasn't allowed to vote. "Honey, you are in prison, nobody votes here!" she recalls being told by a prison officer. "The way he looked at me was quite … ...

Emmett Soldati, Somersworth business owner and former candidate for New Hampshire Executive Council in District 1, told the crowd gathered for the “Steps Toward a Democracy Money Can’t Buy” annual ...

William Partlett is the Stephen Charles Fellow at the Centre for Public Integrity Australians are rightly happy their democracy has avoided the radical, anti-democratic movements sweeping through the ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from enforcement. The battle to preserve it is now a fight for the future of democracy ...

With our busy lives, we sometimes lose sight of the foundation of our government — a government of the people, by the people and for the people. On Nov. 19, 1863, four score and seven years after the ...