The history of voting and elections in America doesn’t follow a steady path toward progress or retreat. It is marked by intense struggles, monumental victories and devastating losses.
- Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University
Though Graham’s appointment may seem unusual, political inheritance has never been fully absent from American democracy.
Sen. Graham repeatedly moved in the direction South Carolina and Republican politics were headed rather than where they had been.
Congress has played an important role in holding federal agencies accountable since the late 1700s, but oversight can also devolve into a political circus.
Gerrymandering has existed since the United States’ earliest days, but now technology and political trends are supercharging it.
The founder of Americans for Tax Reform emerged in the 1980s as the fiscal conscience of American conservatism and continues to wield influence.
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson was an American political icon. But above all, he was a Southerner.
An upcoming Supreme Court case that turns on race and party could affect how state legislatures shape voting maps and how Americans vote for decades to come.
California’s governor has already announced his pick for the the seat, Laphonza Butler. Here’s more on the state-by-state process for replacing a senator who has died, is facing criminal charges or has serious illness.
The National Defense Authorization Act has long had bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. But that died in the House this year.
Debates have played an important part in the American political process. And when candidates don’t participate, democracy suffers.
The Democratic National Committee is shaking up its presidential nominating calendar to give people of color an earlier vote in the process.
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