Democracy Wire

Faces of Common Cause: Miranda Viscoli and Steve Lipscomb

Donald Trump ran for president as an anti-politician, someone who would adhere to the Constitution and stand his ground on principles no matter how hard he was pushed or who was pushing him. Turns out that was a lie.

There’s news today about an interesting – and promising – experiment in democracy in the Pacific Northwest.

Major investments in congressional campaigns by health professionals, hospital companies, and health insurers are producing big returns in Congress.

The swamp that candidate Donald Trump promised to drain is getting deeper six months into President Trump’s administration.

In a matter of minutes over the weekend, a band of self-styled computer nerds demonstrated how voting machines similar to those used in hundreds of precincts across the U.S. can be manipulated to produce wildly inaccurate vote totals.