In the weeks before and after the U.S. presidential election, many of us are asking about the role of empathy in American ...

Beyond the deepfakes and disinformation, the potential for AI to make politics more accessible and equitable cannot be ...

Programs to let investors influence the votes cast by their mutual funds at corporate annual meetings could complicate the ...

The nasty treatment of ‘No Labels’ suggests the Democratic party itself should consider a new label.

And while Georgia’s democracy recently received a colossal Russian push, we vow not to be the next domino to fall.  To ...

What constitutes a good newspaper? Is it as a mere chronicler of facts and events, in a non-partisan, explanatory way? Or ...

Mr. Trump, from the start of his first political campaign, began to unleash on an industrial scale the very worst of all ...

Rachel Maddow outlines Donald Trump's intention as an authoritarian to consolidate the power of the United States government ...

Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.

More than that, the nature of his winning coalition showed how the American electoral order tends to rebalance itself with ...

A secure election system relies on accurate and up-to-date voter rolls that reflect only eligible Maryland voters. Many may ...

A major political storm set off by a bitter feud between the Philippine president and the vice president is testing an Asian ...