The American two-party system is slowly extirpating the country and weakening the democracy it is meant to protect. Forcing ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

Some of the following ideas may need to wait until the main battle in Israeli politics is no longer between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp and the anti-Netanyahu camp.

On October 31, 2025, erudite scholar and seasoned insider of international diplomacy and Indian politics, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, wrote an opinion piece titled “Indian Politics Are a Family Business” for ...

This data-driven time-lapse tracks how every nation's political system evolved from 1800 to today, from the age of monarchies ...

Focus group participants pointed to several factors, including the age of elected leaders. The median age of U.S. senators is 65 and the median age in the House of Representatives is 58. Gen Z adults ...

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This Pew Research Center report looks at what makes people feel proud of their country. We asked an open-ended question allowing people in 25 countries to share, in their own words, what makes them ...

The politics of no‑vote—often dismissed as apathy—has matured into a potent political signal, a collective expression of disillusionment, distrust, and frustration with a system perceived as ...