In 1971 “We the People” again expanded, to include younger people, with the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. The ongoing Vietnam War shifted public opinion, and there was popular support for ...

Mexicans will vote in the country’s first judicial elections Sunday. The fiercely debated question is whether electing judges ...

U.S. institutions are still largely functioning. But the deterioration of the country’s political culture is striking — and ...

Georgia state Rep. Sam Park writes about his commitment not just to celebrate where we’ve come from, but to the work of ...

Eyoel: Because a lot of democracy work has been defensive, and we want to define ourselves by what we are for, not by what we ...

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan wants to withhold up to 5% of his colleagues' salaries if they fail to meet citywide goals — a ...

Indian American civil rights lawyer Anuj Dixit, the son of immigrants from India, is running for Congress in California’s ...

Voters in Oakland, California, have elected a new mayor following the recall of Mayor Sheng Thao, who faced criticism for ...

“And I don’t know anyone who believes that someone’s ability to vote should depend on how much money they have. That is not the democracy ... to make sure that people don’t feel ...

When Stephen B. Heintz retires next year as president and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, it will mark the end of 25 years helming the $1.2 billion Rockefeller family […] ...

The Post’s reporting about Democrats’ debate over language hits at a core tension that the party is facing as it struggles to ...

The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently ...