Issues Under Fire: Searching the World for Democracy Options, We Found One in Iceland

Summary: Imagine if America could hold nationwide referendums on every major issue dividing the country, thereby bypassing a needlessly cumbersome and corrupt political process. By our estimation, issues like immigration and criminal justice reform, the legalization of marijuana, the federal minimum wage, how to provide and pay for national healthcare, how to provide and pay for free college tuition, how to provide pay for a dignified social safety-net for American seniors, as well as how to reduce America's global military footprint would have been dealt with by now.