Month: May 2026

There’s a referendum failure that gets almost no attention. It’s not about turnout, campaign cash, or even the swamp of misinformation. It’s the failure baked in before anyone casts a vote—when the question on the ballot is so badly put together...

Any conversation about direct democracy inside a representative system has to start with something obvious: the two aren’t opposites. They’re parts of one decision-making machine. The real question isn’t which one to have. It’s how to tune the connections between them...