A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
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Voting patterns over decades show how hard it is to maintain enthusiasm for democracy.
Colorado’s Supreme Court has removed Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. A scholar of constitutional law explains why.
Jokowi’s bet the general public doesn’t really care about constitutional crises or claims of dynasty building seems to be paying off.
Anti-democratic actions and government corruption are key reasons many Guatemalans migrate to the US.
More than three-quarters of the world’s nations engage in torture, which is notoriously difficult to study because it often occurs in secret.
The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor’s iCivics curriculum has been shown to boost knowledge of the political process.
A major concern is whether the recent attacks In Sierra Leone will encourage further division and tension in the country.
Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
Censure might occasionally be necessary to preserve the integrity of a parliament, but using it to punish members for their personal views threatens the foundations of democracy.
Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers.
The ACT Party claims revisiting the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi is about political equality. But removing a Māori cultural dimension to New Zealand’s democracy would have an opposite effect.
After more than 30 years of federalism, ethnic conflict in Ethiopia hasn’t been resolved – but neither has the country disintegrated.
Today, the government released a review into Australia’s patchwork of a secrecy law system. The proposed changes are a step in the right direction, but there’s so much more work to do.
When people are pervasively disinformed, the very foundations of democracy can end up on shaky ground.
The very low public trust in the Ghanaian police suggests a crisis of legitimacy.
If public administration education is designed and delivered poorly, it sets a course for the systematic destruction of state capability.
Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public sphere.
A peaceful power transition would be a sign of a maturing democracy.
The autocratic Law and Justice Party looks set to be turfed out by a center-left coalition, which gained more than half of all votes.
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