The West Virginia Senate and House have agreed to a compromise state budget and sent it to Gov. Patrick Morrisey, who has until Thursday to sign or veto the measure.

For years, Nigerians accepted this flawed design as a necessary, if clumsy, compromise for national unity - a post-civil-war necessity. But the evidence of failure is now overwhelming.The elite ...

The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional invention that weakens the experiment in self-government that our nations ...

Democracy is said to be an ongoing process of governance based on popular sovereignty, rather than a static state or single event. This is perhaps why America, often seen as a beacon of democracy even ...