Former President Barack Obama appears in a TV commercial supporting Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed Prop 50 redistricting plan ...

Reflecting on the conditions for the maintenance of republican government (what we would today call “democracy”), James Madison observed that “a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free ...

Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of ...

Crowds filled the streets to end the Vietnam War. Rosa Parks’ quiet act of resistance became a national reckoning. Martin ...

Once again, Republicans in the Missouri legislature have shown that they have no respect for the voters in Missouri, or democracy. An article in the News-Leader on Sept. 9 detailed how they are ...