Commentary

In August, the city of Seattle put its ” one-of-a-kind,” “democracy voucher” program to the test. It flunked. Just weeks after the poor first ...

Recent revelations that Russian interests used social media to interfere with the 2016 American election campaign have sent lawmakers scurrying to respond. China’s “Great ...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are outraged by the announcement that the Department of Justice would stick with the Obama administration decision not to prosecute ...

How should we react when businesses donate to nonprofits, think tanks, and social welfare organizations? Should we feel fear and disgust that Big Money ...

Facebook recently revealed that a Russian firm had purchased political ads on the social media site beginning in the summer of 2015 mentioning Hillary ...

It may shock you to learn that the multimillionaire co-founder of a global ice-cream empire has been meeting with elected officials in the hopes ...

Bloomberg columnist Megan McArdle recently noted that “we live in fear of online mobs.” She writes that increasingly people “are terrified that something they ...

Every American knows about the right to free speech. It’s a principle that is deeply ingrained into us from a young age. It’s also ...

How transparent is political spending in the United States? Data from the 2016 election cycle may surprise you. So-called “dark money” actually went down, ...

In our tumultuous political climate, at least we can count on one thing: a bipartisan consensus from our elected officials on the importance of ...