One can argue with a straight face that failing to allow voters to elect the president of their choice is an infringement on representative democracy. In one defensible worldview, giving voters the ...

Seeing the danger a year before Adams-Jackson, Madison wrote of his strong opposition to winner-take-all state elections ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

Nebraskans came out in big numbers Thursday to criticize — but mostly to defend — the state’s unusual system of awarding Electoral College votes for president by congressional district. State Sen.

If Sean Spiller is elected governor of New Jersey this year, it will be the culmination of two very different strands of the ...

Harding, however, was no Trump: The president, newly elected to a second term, has a mean if not sadistic streak, an ...

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a system to choose our president: the Electoral College. More than two ...

President Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning the former president to the Oval ...

The mechanics of upending American democracy would entail surmounting a thick tangle of constitutional, bureaucratic, legal and political obstacles.

Gannon provided the example of the 2000 presidential election, in which Al Gore narrowly lost to former President George W. Bush by four electoral college votes. Gore lost the state by just 7,211 ...

The President’s refusal to act in the people’s interest is not about contract sanctity or investment principles but about crude political expediency and electoral calculations. Such a feared ...