Another term for this type of government is representative democracy. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Whatever you call it, these are all describing the same thing. So the next time someone asks if ...

Over the years, I’ve written frequently about government efficiency and inefficiency. I even wrote a book that, among other things, measured types of efficiency across 38,000 local governments in the ...

What sort of government would do such a thing to people? What sort of leader would oversee such a country? The deck for the piece says that the Americans "became captives of an autocratic government." ...