This is the second in a series of opinion pieces on how to fix democracy. RADICAL change is needed to overcome the crisis in liberal democracy. The needs range from the constitution to the machinery ...

For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

Last month's column dealt with the philosophy behind open meetings laws and why public officials should conduct the public's business in public, not in private. Open meetings laws like the federal ...

Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday morning in a case that will determine the scope of transparency under the Freedom of Information Act’s key “deliberative process” privilege. U.S. Fish ...

SAN FRANCISCO—The director of the National Security Agency said Wednesday the spy agency was “in a deliberative process” over the future of its controversial surveillance program that collects ...

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