Day after day, from college campuses to high school classrooms, we hear stories about needless bureaucratic barriers that prevent young people from voting. For young Americans, the greatest barrier to participation is the outdated process itself. Our complicated registration process varies state-by-state, and our country's antiquated, paper-based electoral system is...

After young people turned out in record numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire, you would think that those who regularly trash Millennials, Generation Y and others in our 20s and 30s would stop scapegoating young voters for our alleged apathy towards democratic participation.

Apparently not.

Although nearly 37 percent of...

With 100 percent of the precincts and pantries reporting, Democrats Work can declare the winner of the first-ever "Coats and Cans Primary." While there was a candidate who got the most votes, the real winners were the members of the community who donated and received more than 400 coats and...

Colorado primary voters went to the polls last weekend and the turnout was heavy.

No, this wasn't an outlandish attempt by Colorado to jump ahead of New Hampshire by holding its presidential primary in October. And the votes cast weren't even of the paper, electronic or...

In 2004, the most interesting activity at Republican National Convention wasn't inside Madison Square Garden -- it was in the streets. With protests not seen since the '68 Democratic Convention in Chicago, hundreds of thousands of activists packed into pens and crammed the streets of midtown Manhattan. More than 1,800...

In the midst of the media storm surrounding Larry Craig's bathroom habits and the immediate Republican response, it may have been too easy to forget that last week marked the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's utter failure to respond to a real disaster. The two...