In the wake of a volatile session, one major question looms. Will the measures survive the courtroom and the ballot box?
Residents of Zurich voted Sunday to ban the use of petrol-fuelled leaf blowers and leaf vacuums over noise and air pollution ...
Two ballot titles that would strengthen direct democracy in Arkansas have been approved to begin collecting enough signatures ...
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Gen Z movement and direct democracy

The Gen-Z movement and the Swiss model of direct democracy converge on the same truth: Democracy is strongest when people’s ...
Republicans' proposed changes to the initiative petition process would rob Missourians of their right to direct democracy, this writer argues.
The vote came more than four hours after the House also advanced a first-in-the-nation plan that would overhaul Missouri's initiative petition process, the state's most visible form of direct ...
The more citizens use their power to advance their interests via ballot iniatives, the more some lawmakers attack the process.
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America Isn’t a Democracy. Yet.

Osita Nwanevu discusses his new book, how our political structure turned up the temperature after Charlie Kirk, and what ...
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The battle of democracy

From the halls of Harvard to the news desk at MSNBC and everywhere left in between, accusations of President Donald Trump and Republicans waging a "war on democracy" flow like a raging flood.
It’s easy to read all this and think the fight for democracy is already lost. The Supreme Court is controlled by a 6-3 ...
Wangchuk's arrest comes amid chaos over the recent protests in Leh, where the protesters have been demanding statehood for ...
Respect Missouri Voters is collecting signatures for a constitutional amendment to protect the citizen petition process from ...