Elections

Congress Must Fix the Electoral Count Act to Avert a Crisis

With the experience of the Trump administration in mind, Congress must use its lame-duck session to make the electoral reforms needed to ensure the continuation of free and fair elections,...

Can This Bipartisan Bill Protect the Electoral Count Process?

On Wednesday, Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced a bill that aims to reform the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act, which former President Donald Trump and his allies...

Progressives Take a Hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco Votes

California held its primary elections on Tuesday, and in the closely-watched mayoral race in Los Angeles, two candidates qualified for the runoff election.  Per the Los Angeles Times, neither of...

The United States Should Take a Page from the German Election Playbook

The recent German election allegedly brought an end to the sixteen-year Angela Merkel era. Yet it seems that even though the ruling coalition of parties in the government may change,...

Five Elections Show How Joe Biden Fumbles Democracy Promotion

On June 18, the Iranian public went to the polls. The election was fraudulent and State Department Spokesman Ned Price acknowledged as much. Still, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan got...

Does the BJP’s Defeat Mean Victory for Secularism in India?

In recent years India has assumed considerable strategic importance in American policy toward the Indo-Pacific (formerly Asia-Pacific) region. This is the result of its growing economic and military capabilities and...

Russia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections: Missed Opportunities

While Americans debate whether to support Trump or Hillary in the upcoming elections, the stakes were quite different for Russian voters in the September 18th elections to Russia’s State Duma. Many Russians debated...

Could Terrorists Pick America’s Next President?

The Obama Administration has done a good job of keeping foreign terrorists out of America.  The violence perpetrated within U.S. borders during the Obama years by groups like the Islamic State and Al...

10 Elections to Follow in 2016

Millions of people around the world went to the polls this year. Nigerians voted out their incumbent president and elected a former military dictator in his place. British voters surprised...

Scott Walker: Ready for a 2016 Takeoff or Crash Landing?

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has emerged as a top-tier candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination at this very early stage. After a well-received speech to Iowa conservatives that defied...

Netanyahu vs. Israel’s WASPs: The Battle for Zionism

Imagine that instead of competing for the highest office in the land as representatives of two rival political parties, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush decide to band together and run...

Ted Cruz 2016: Time to Channel Ronald Reagan?

Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz all went to Iowa. This is not the set-up of a joke, but the beginning of the 2016 presidential race. All three are...