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At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” U.S. House Representative Jasmine ...

Teachers told him it was unlikely a child could slip or tumble from that great a height without pushing or prompting.

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II ...

Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon. Harris has her own views about a range of foreign policy issues—including ...

Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...

Andreas Eshete, who died last week at age seventy-nine, was one of the greatest minds of Ethiopia’s finest generation of thinkers. A child of the revolutionary movement, he was a reflective political ...

Drutman is partly right: the “two-party doom loop” threatens American democracy and structural reform is needed. But his framework can’t explain how authoritarian movements have seized governing power ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...

Elections have become nearly synonymous with democracy. We invest so much hope, energy, and money in elections and keep ending up with out-of-touch politicians, legislative gridlock, and violent ...