Democracy in the Balance

A path beyond our broken two-party system.

Can better decision-making procedures ever achieve real democracy?

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it's the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.

They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

In the United States, the division of power between state and national government hurts democracy rather than helps it.

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

The real source of the threat to American democracy.

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.

Rev. William J. Barber II on civil disobedience, the failures of electoral campaigns, and why the South is key to a political transformation of the country.

The Electoral College once served an urgent political purpose. The time has now come to abolish it.

The failures of our winner-takes-all system.