A push in California to tax billionaires will be an important test of the political power of the rich – and the health of US democracy.
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Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
President Donald Trump is trying to prescribe the style and content of many federal sites to highlight his own authority and promote a particular view of America.
Banning abortion instantly oppresses a huge swath of society. And enforcing abortion bans begets a police state − an upside for dictators from Mussolini to Ortega.
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.
In 1967, the Supreme Court said the government usually cannot take away citizenship without a person’s consent.
It’s always suited Trump to manufacture crises to further his agenda. By demonising protesters as insurrectionist mobs, he could be laying the groundwork for further escalation.
A campaign hat and a partisan speech are unusual in a military setting in the United States.
Former Harvard president Larry Summers says a ban on foreign students would cause damage not just to the university but to the US’s image globally.
More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.
The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this destabilizing pattern last?
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing the president with kinglike powers was dangerous.
All presidents should expect to be sued early and often by state attorneys general of the opposite party.
What’s happening now in Washington, DC, is different from most presidential transitions − in volume, pace, content and breadth of the changes ordered.
The mechanics of upending American democracy would entail surmounting a thick tangle of constitutional, bureaucratic, legal and political obstacles.
Colorado voters considered 14 ballot measures in the November 2024 election, the most of any state.
The U.S. congressman from East Harlem promoted compassion in a district marked by ethnic, racial and class differences. It’s a story worth remembering in today’s divided America.
Surveys show Americans do not believe the political system is serving them. A mathematician of democracy highlights evidence-based changes that could improve matters without tearing the nation apart.
Most Americans actually agree on key issues, including reproductive rights, firearms laws and climate change.
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College
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University System of Maryland Regents Professor of Law, University of Maryland
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Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
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American Politics Program Director, United States Military Academy West Point
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Professor of Government and Politics and Director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, University of Maryland
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia
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Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland
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Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of American Politics, United States Military Academy West Point
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Director, Missouri S&T Policy and Armed Forces Research and Development Institute; Lecturer of History, National Security, and Leadership, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
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PhD Student in Department of Political Science, Penn State
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Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney