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The hard-right of the Republican Party is exerting pressures on candidates to be the next speaker of the House.
About 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in the midterms, marking the second-highest voter turnout in midterms in 30 years.
Analysis of voting data suggests that in counties across Georgia, a slice of Republicans just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Herschel Walker.
The runoff election for the Senate seat in Georgia has wider implications for the balance of power across the US.
Gen Z and millennial voters will account for nearly 40% of votes at the 2024 election, reports suggest.
What happened to the predicted red wave in the US midterms?
The current political polarisation will make the president’s job even harder.
Laws making it more difficult to vote are being introduced around the democratic world, an expert says.
Abortion referendums in such states as California and Kentucky provide a way to protect abortion rights at the state level – but voting limitations could undermine the power of the ballot box.
Biden remains the default candidate for the Democrat nomination for the 2024 election, but he is ageing and many believe the party would benefit from a younger candidate.
Despite America’s deep divisions, the electioneering showed democracy’s resilience. This should be a boost for democracy advocates across Africa.
Two states had guns directly on the ballot in midterm election initiatives. Voters moved state laws in opposite directions.
The former president’s star appears to be on the wane, which could affect his decision whether to run for the presidency in 2024.
The two were close colleagues, but now there’s little love lost between Trump and the man who may ruin his chances of another try for the White House.
Election of moderate rather than Trump Republicans makes a change in Ukraine policy less likely.
Some analysts think Russia’s withdrawal may be a ruse, to draw Ukrainian troops into urban warfare.
Voters mostly did not cast their ballots for chief election administration officials who deny the 2020 election. But the hyperpartisan trend could further erode trust in elections.
Abortion rights were on the ballot in five states during the midterm elections – all broke in favor of abortion-rights advocates.
Many of the world’s most powerful and aspiring leaders are aging or elderly men. That’s a big problem.
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Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Portsmouth
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Visiting Research Fellow in International Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University
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Professor of Health Law and Professor of Law, Boston University
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Deputy Director at CIRCLE, Tufts University
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Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Political Science Department, State University of New York Cortland
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Political Science, Drake University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor American Politics, Political Science, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of American Politics, Mississippi State University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
