In such a climate, activism is not an indulgence. It is the civic scaffolding that keeps a democracy from sagging under its own contradictions. When public money is borrowed, citizens must ask to what ...

Public activism is often dismissed as noise — hashtags that flare and fade, marches that make the evening news and then dissolve. But when citizens stay with the work beyond the first spark, activism ...

Washington’s initiative process is one of the purest expressions of democracy in our state. It gives every citizen the power to propose laws, to check legislative inaction, and to make their voices ...

Housing officers have welcomed increased funding for its buy-back scheme and promised more money for new council homes. But the Scottish Government’s response to its declared housing emergency is not ...

Tomorrow is Election Day, and it's one of my favorite days of the year. I know that sounds strange, given how ugly our politics have become, but hear me out.

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

On July 4th, 2026, America will celebrate its 250th birthday. The United States is the world's oldest and still evolving experiment in democracy.

The nominators didn’t all agree, and, of course, had their own perspectives and agendas, but through those conversations, we ...

A few minutes later, those same students took their seats in the audience for the mayoral debate. It was a lively night, ...