Can the rise of a different kind of democracy help us to ease the collective feeling of Democratic Fatigue Syndrome?

The theme of the 2024 General Election was meant to be change. Apart from the end of the chaotic Conservative government and ...

Brett Hennig is co-founder and director of the Sortition Foundation. The one new democratic tool that should become common practice in U.S. cities, states and nationally, is sortition: the use of ...

The AI did better than professional mediators at getting people to reach agreement.

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition — a random lottery from a pool of candidates. In the United States, we already use ...

Google DeepMind recruited 5,734 participants, some through a crowdsourcing research platform and others through the Sortition Foundation, a nonprofit that organizes citizens’ assemblies.

The principles of the Athenian democracy, including citizen participation, equality and free speech, are still what we need ...

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially ...

Perhaps the Romans, like Professor Yadin, saw lots scattered about and deduced that a sortition played a role in the process of death. In addition to these motivated fictions and historical ...

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially ...

In today's politically polarized world, finding common ground on complex social and political issues is becoming increasingly challenging. As societies grow more diverse, disagreements on crucial ...

In less than a week, the United States will hold its presidential election, possibly one of the most consequential in its history. Autocratic political leaders seem to be winning elections in Western ...