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The recent government shutdown is just the latest reminder of dysfunction in American politics — stalemate, leaders unwilling to compromise and citizens left to pay the price. But beyond gridlock lies ...

The profound crisis facing the United States—masked security forces aggressively preventing people from lawful protest, disappearing people into detention centers, deporting people without due process ...

The League of Women Voters’ mission is essential and urgent: Empowering Voters, Defending Democracy. At a time when our election system is being questioned, distorted and misrepresented from many ...

Platner is facing Governor Janet Mills in the Democratic primary with the winner taking on long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins this fall.

Despite the recent political and civic turmoil, Americans must recommit to the core tenets of democratic liberalism in order to ensure a free and open society, individual liberty, and equality under ...

The unevenness is striking, given the Jewish people’s historical allergy to authoritarianism and how essential healthy democracy has been to the success and thriving of the American Jewish community.

Europe’s political elites say democracy is under threat. Their solution? Put Brussels in charge of policing political speech.

When Chilean troops encircled La Moneda Palace in central Santiago on September 11, 1973, to overthrow the elected president, José Antonio Kast was just seven years old. He was too young to fully ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each of these incidents could be viewed in isolation as discrete policy disputes or passing political storms. But beneath them ...