Russia is not just moving Ukrainian children. It is taking away their identities. Will the $25 million being spent by the US to locate and rehabilitate forcibly transferred children be enough?
- Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
The Republican and Democratic parties are united in protecting their chokehold on American politics, despite the view by America’s founders that parties had no legitimate place in the republic.
Postelection analysis of 2024 voters’ behavior reveals several ways self-described political independents differ from those who say they are Republicans or Democrats.
Despite the power that political independents are anticipated to have over the election results, there’s a lot that remains unknown about this group.
From one perspective, Nevada’s political history is balanced. From another, it’s s pendulum swinging back and forth as people split their votes across party lines.
Increasingly, the media, pollsters and pundits are focusing on independent voters and their effects on election outcomes.
Voters frustrated by statehouse politics are bypassing elected representatives and enacting laws using direct democracy to preserve abortion rights, raise the minimum wage and rein in state spending.
Scholars discuss aspects of protecting election integrity in the face of efforts to cast aspersions on voting results.
Pollsters, pundits and politicians all get it wrong when it comes to independent voters, who have become a crucial – and sometimes decisive – group in American politics.
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.
Voter demographics and policy priorities are two recurrent, big issues on Election Day – but shifts in election administration and voting laws are new challenges influencing the midterms.
What happens if the public loses faith in fair elections? That’s the question being asked as candidates influenced by Donald Trump aim to become the chief election officials in their states.
A partisan election system, attacks on election administration and widespread disinformation place the U.S. democracy in a precarious position.
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