When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Roughly 2,500 years ago, the citizens of Athens developed a concept of democracy that's still hailed by the modern world. It was not, however, a democracy in which every citizen had a vote. Aristotle ...

The last time the merged government charter, which was approved by voters in 1972 and took effect Jan. 1, 1974, was reviewed was in 1998. That was a group convened by Commerce Lexington. The group ...

The democratic system of governance is one of the triumphs of civilisation. It ensures that our societies are run in the best interests of the majority. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, there ...

Legislatures, and the elections that populate them, have so many flaws that we might be better off picking our representatives at random. Before you chuckle, first consider how far we’ve come since ...

Legislatures, and the elections that populate them, have so many flaws that we might be better off picking our representatives at random. Before you chuckle, first consider how far we’ve come since ...