Earlier this month, just hours after the US Supreme Court restored a congressional map that a lower federal court had ordered redrawn because it diluted Black voting power, I set out to drive many of these district lines that surgically
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Opinion: If voters don’t stop it, election deniers could kill American democracy
We work to make sure that every eligible citizen is registered, has the information they need to vote, has their vote counted correctly and can have rightly placed faith in a complex electoral process — one made more onerous by
House passes Protect Our Democracy Act to curb presidential abuses of power
One Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voted with all the Democrats for the bill. The bill now faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where 60 votes are required for passage. The bill, which has support from the White
Can AI make democracy more equitable?
Democracy in ancient Athens looked quite different from today’s democracy. Instead of elections, most positions, including the legislature, the governing council, and justice of the peace, were filled with citizen volunteers selected by random lottery. These civic meetings drafted, debated,