People’s belief in American democracy is undermined by regular changes to state voting laws.
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All 50 states have laws that ban potentially intimidating behavior at polling places. They will need enforcement during the 2022 midterm elections.
Republicans and democrats alike have accused each other of threatening the foundations of democracy. How legitimate are these fears?
As the fastest-growing racial group in the US, Asian Americans form an important voting bloc and could play a key role in swing states, write two political scientists.
Voters trust their gut when they decide who an electable candidate is or isn’t. That may be a bad idea.
A partisan election system, attacks on election administration and widespread disinformation place the U.S. democracy in a precarious position.
Trump and Bolsonaro use religion in similar ways, but there are key differences between the two countries’ evangelical communities – and politics.
There’s a new party in town – but it may not last long.
History shows that political contests over the ideological slant of the court are nothing new.
GOP political ads are becoming more extreme in their use of weapons to demonstrate armed resistance against those opposed to their militant views – including other Republicans.
Former US president Donald Trump continues to wield an important influence within the Republican Party. Notwithstanding the war in Ukraine, he and his supporters continue to look up to Vladimir Putin.
For much of the country’s history, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and racial equality, and the Democratic Party backed Jim Crow laws and white supremacy. The two parties switched.
The most successful third parties in US politics don’t typically rise to dominance, but instead challenge the major parties enough to force a course correction.
The Senate has a lot of rules, and its parliamentarian interprets what those rules allow – and what they don’t. That can mean a bill will face either huge obstacles, or very few obstacles to passage.
Rep. Liz Cheney may have been exiled from her party’s leadership, but she’s after a bigger thing: the restoration of politically conservative values in the GOP and its voters.
States led by Republican governors generally had higher COVID-19 case and death rates in 2020.
The majority of Americans say they’d like to be able to vote for a third party. Donald Trump says he might start one. But neither is likely to happen.
The growing rift between Republicans and US businesses has widened in recent weeks over efforts to restrict voting across the country.
As GOP-run statehouses across the country tighten voting restrictions, a bill in Congress would, its Democratic sponsors say, undo more than 15 years of moves to make voting harder.
When social media platforms banned Donald Trump they acknowledged that sometimes social good is more important than shareholder profits.
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