Amid angry European reactions to US Vice President JD Vance's combative speech in Munich, Switzerland's president said on ...

Arkansas's motto is Regnat Populus — the People Rule. If Sen. Hammer’s bills become law, the people could only rule if they ...

Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative ...

Missouri Republicans continue working to reverse the abortion rights amendment approved by state voters in November.

I love the fact that South Dakota was the first state in the nation to empower its citizens to initiate and refer laws, columnist Terry Woster writes.

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as seen with the carbon pipeline debate in 2024 – provides a check ...

Ballot Measure Battle Could Curtail South Dakota's Direct Democracy Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative ...

European top diplomats discuss what a plan for Ukraine could look like. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find that your fundamental right to influence state policy through citizen-led initiatives has been effectively nullified. This ...

GOP legislators and governors around the country are borrowing Trump's ideas and language on a host of issues. Separately, ...

But this heavy-handed assault on direct democracy is not the answer. In 2024, a ballot initiative needed nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make the ballot. DeSantis’s scheme all but guarantees ...

Now, Elon tweeted the other day. He was like, the proper structure of government on Mars should be not just a democracy but a direct democracy. Let me examine the thinking behind Musk saying this ...