A U.S. Border Patrol officer shows how he found an undocumented Mexican immigrant under the hood of a car along the U.S.-Mexican border in March 1954.
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Donald Trump says he will authorize a roundup of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. A 1950s program with similar goals, called Operation Wetback, offers lessons.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
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Bassirou Diomaye Faye rose to power in the shadow of popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.
Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, on the campaign trail ahead of Uganda’s 2021 general election.
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Data gleaned from even early polls reveals critical clues on how voters view candidates and issues.
Aides prepare Alabama’s Electoral College votes for certification during a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Michigan’s attorney general has charged 16 people in a fake electors plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Here’s how the Electoral College works.
Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence appear together in November 2020.
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Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually – but it could be a nightmare for democracy.
Joe Biden during the 2020 election race, but will he stand in 2024?
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Disaster-hit Turkey is due to stage a presidential vote in June. Erdoğan’s handling of the earthquake response – and his role in the country’s perceived lack of preparedness – may be his undoing.
Young people in Nigeria seek freedom from repression and other governance failures. Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeolai/NurPhoto,
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Young Nigerians actively discuss politics and governance despite being kept on the sidelines. They seek a government that would promote their inclusion and solve problems affecting them.
More than 110 million votes were cast in the U.S. midterm elections of November 2022.
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Compared with past midterms, voter turnout among young people jumped in 2022 – but it was still below 30%.
A prominent GOP poll said Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire would lose her re-election bid to a Republican. Hassan won by 9 percentage points.
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Polling for the 2022 midterms was more accurate than the dramatically wrong predictions of 2016 and 2020, leading one pollster to boast, ‘The death of polling has been greatly exaggerated.’
The Unfolding is fiction: a made-up story of American politics. But just like in the real United States, the lines between truth and fantasy in this novel are perilously thin.
A voter fills out his ballot at an early voting location in Massachusetts.
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The balance of US political power is at stake in the 2022 midterm elections. Voters have several ways to cast their ballots – and the majority of Americans are choosing one of them.
There’s a lot of information on social media that would support legal proceedings, but courts have yet to harness this.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is seen presiding over the counting of the votes on Jan. 6, 2021, during a hearing of the House January 6 committee in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 2022.
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The attempt by Donald Trump’s supporters to reverse the 2020 presidential election results shows the need to update the nation’s landmark law for counting presidential votes.
The new poster boy of left-wing South American politics?
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Professeur émérite juriste et américaniste, spécialiste des États-Unis, questions politiques, sociales et juridiques (Cour suprême), Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières