Following an exceptional campaign cycle that has witnessed the rise of multiple candidates peripheral to the party establishment, the GOP...

As the presidential primary schedule rumbles to life, Republican candidates are looking to the South to give themselves a leg up. In...

For a generation that has been disappointed one too many times by the promise of participatory democracy to anticipate any real change,...

Twelve months from now, the American public will be embroiled in one of the most highly anticipated election seasons of recent memory....

Valentine’s Day was another day of broken hearts, this year in Nigeria. February 14 was scheduled to be the date of the upcoming...

In liberal circles, unregulated campaign finance is often portrayed as the “Big Bad Wolf” blowing down the house of American democracy....

It is becoming clear that Ohio’s status as a swing state is coming into question; the Republican Party has made active and deliberate...

On September 29, the new Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, was sworn in alongside his erstwhile rival, now second-in-command, Abdullah...

The Republican Party is like a bunch of awkward guys on dates — trying very hard, but having trouble winning over women. With the midterm...

The obvious is treated discretely in Brazil: Two women are fighting head-to-head for the presidency, one black and one white, and yet...

Nouri al-Maliki’s abdication from the position of Iraqi Prime Minister last month sent shockwaves around the Middle East and the world....

John Dennis is running against Majority Leader Pelosi this November. Art by Katrina Machado John Dennis’ next few months look rough....

John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will...

Art by Emily Reif There’s a general understanding amongst the members of the American public that midterm elections are not, for most...

Art by Olivia Watson Four years ago, then-Mayor John Hickenlooper leveraged his popular, quirky image to catapult himself out of Denver’s...

Does gerrymandering contribute to polarization? Art by Katrina Machado In the July tradition of summer camps past, let’s play Two Truths...

Art by Anisa Holmes On a recent visit to my former high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, I asked my 12th grade English teacher,...

Art by Olivia Watson Frank Underwood might be a Democrat, but it was Republican Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) that Kevin Spacey...

Art by Emily Reif Since the founding of America, religion has always been both a powerful influence and a blunt weapon in political...

Art by Katrina Machado “The definition of insanity, according to Einstein’s over-used proverb, is ‘doing the same thing over and over...