The Dēmos Power Agenda: A Framework for Building People Power offers a roadmap for our shared future. A Representative and Accountable Government is the final pillar of the Power Agenda, reflecting ...

HE’S WAITING FOR SENTENCING IN THAT CASE. A NEW REPORT IS OUTLINING LATINO REPRESENTATION IN THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT. THE 7.8 MILLION LATINOS LIVING IN THE STATE MAKE UP ABOUT 20% OF THE POPULATION.

Americans’ trust in the federal government has been decreasing for decades, with only one-fifth of Americans reporting they trusted the federal government in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center ...

For nearly a decade, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies — America’s Black think tank — has advocated for greater African American representation among government staff, particularly ...

IT is not always that there is a direct relation between the sound and fury of language and its real meaning, but such imposing words as the Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall do not indicate ...

Representation is an essential but troubled element of American democracy. The entire US political system is built on an idea of representation. Indeed, representative government is guaranteed to ...

Nearly 1,300 elected officials in the U.S. are a part of the LGBTQ community − a number that continues to grow every election cycle but still falls far short of being representative of the LGBTQ ...

Rep. Park Cannon is the Democratic state representative for Georgia House District 58. As we celebrate Women's Equality Day on Thursday, Aug. 26, I must admit that I am an overachiever who wants more ...

After a City Council meeting in December, Nelly Torres found herself asking the same question she’d been asking for years: Why don’t I see people like myself in city government? Torres, a Latina ...

The Texas Capitol on opening day of the 89th Texas Legislative Session in Austin on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Contributing columnist Glenn Rogers writes that lobbying, while often considered a dirty ...