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Hugh McTavish is running as the Independence-Alliance Party candidate for governor of Minnesota in 2026. UCG via Getty Images

Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast

Many Americans are unhappy with the two major parties but seldom support alternatives. New England is an exception.
About 50 Tanzanians living in Cape Town protested against recent actions by the Tanzanian government in 2025. Rodger Bosch/Getty Images

Young Tanzanians are fed up with not getting a slice of the economic action – research

Tanzania’s October 29 protests were framed as an electoral dispute. Research links them to a deeper crisis of blocked adulthood among young people.
Launch of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Ecowas in Accra, Ghana, on 22 April 2025. Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

Ecowas without the Sahel states: how the split is testing free movement and regional legitimacy

Beyond the rights to free movement, the AES withdrawal has real effects on Ecowas in terms of its legitimacy, strength and migrant rights.
Hoping to preserve his narrow majority, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned alongside Matt Van Epps, who narrowly won a December 2025 special election in a strongly Republican district in Tennessee. AP Photo/John Amis

Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?

Special election results have anticipated recent midterm outcomes. With Democrats now overperforming, that could spell trouble for the GOP in 2026.
Local officials get to participate in events such as ribbon cuttings, celebrating projects they may have helped make happen. NHLI/Eliot J. Schechter via Getty Images

Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable

Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.

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