Joe Mathews is the Connecting California columnist for Zócalo Public Square and founder-publisher of Democracy Local.

Democracies that use proportional systems consistently show higher turnout, more accurate representation, more competitive ...

Mexico distances itself from the US in its regional diplomacy while making common cause with its neighbor on vital bilateral ...

Redrawing districts won’t save us. Proportional representation offers the best solution for an out-of-touch government.

As states from Texas to California debate and vote on new electoral maps, Americans are both learning about – and often disgusted by – the scale of gerrymandering in their states. The result is that ...

Utahans looking at the multiple rainbow colored redistricting maps currently before Judge Dianna Gibson in the litigation challenging the shapes of Utah’s four U. S. congressional districts could ...

PR is the principle that a party’s share of votes should match its share of legislative seats. Systems built on that principle treat votes for candidates as votes for their parties, too. Thus, it ...

California has long positioned itself as a beacon of democratic reform. But Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50—to redraw congressional maps mid-decade explicitly to flip five GOP-held seats—is a ...

(CNN) — Erika Kirk has been named CEO of Turning Point USA, taking over the organization that her husband, Charlie Kirk, helped found and led until his assassination last week. The move was announced ...

The group founded by Charlie Kirk is a right-wing political organization that focuses on motivating young people. By Emma Goldberg Follow our latest updates on the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Turning ...

Our current system for elections to the House of Representatives systematically enables gerrymandering and helps trap the Left inside the Democratic Party. We need proportional representation.