Elections

New theorists and activists argue that France's “representative democracy” is neither democratic nor representative, and they argue for a return to the Athenian model.

Greg Palast: Far more insidious than Chris Christie playing traffic warden is the story of his secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires - and the legality of campaign …

When Delhi state's November elections brought the new anticorruption Aam Admi Party to power, calculations about India's upcoming national elections were upset, and a previously narrow field suddenly widened.

At the Ways and Means website, one of the first things the GOP did was to cut off email contact between ordinary Americans and possibly the most powerful tax-writing …

Ralph Nader and Paul Jay discuss Ralph's decision to stay in the Florida race and what an electoral strategy could be now.

Unknown to users, ‘massive security vulnerability’ in Internet architecture allowed massive ‘man-in-the-middle’ rerouting.

Today Congress is dumb, in cognitive diversity one of the dumbest in the world perhaps. But, it can smarten up rather easily on some simple electoral reforms.

Romania's parliament rejects amendments to Romania's mining law to kick-start Rosia Montana.

Senator Bernie Sanders recently announced that he's considering entering the 2016 presidential race if a strong progressive doesn't. He also mentioned that he likes Elizabeth Warren.

Hondurans are revolting against the US-backed outcome. There are too many reports of rampant vote-buying, fraud and violence.