With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

2022 appears to be yet another year in which the “lesser evil” narrative has driven much public debate. While the anger with Democrats for not making meaningful action toward fulfilling their campaign ...

In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...

Ramin Skibba is an astrophysicist turned science writer based in San Diego, California. The US election being held in November is only the latest in a pivotal year of elections. By the end of 2024, as ...

Most congressional general elections are not competitive. It's why some people feel like voting won't make a difference, or that their interests are not represented by the people who win. Advocates ...

With Congress increasingly polarized, there are growing calls to replace the winner-take-all approach for House elections with a system that... Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional ...