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Is There a Smoking Gun in the January 6th Investigation?
Mark Meadows, it seems, is now a bellwether of American democracy. Late Tuesday night, the House of Representatives, on a…
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Why New Jersey Voters Picked a Truck Driver Over the State Senate President
In the November 2nd election for New Jersey’s Third Senate District, the Democrat, Steve Sweeney, had twenty years of incumbency…
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Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?
In his new book, “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America,” the political scientist Lee…
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Zuzana Caputova, the President of Slovakia, Voices Her Country’s Hopes and Frustrations
What’s it like to be the political ray of hope for an entire region of the world? Depending on who…
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Benjamin Netanyahu Is Indicted on Criminal Charges; His Defiance Puts Israel’s Democracy at Risk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defiant response to the three indictments finally brought against him, on Thursday, would, under any circumstances,…
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Justin Trudeau’s Victory Was Narrow, but Still Significant
A competition once managed by Michael Kinsley, who was then the editor of The New Republic, asked readers to write…
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A Top Leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Political Opposition Returns
On a Monday in May, people’s phones began to buzz in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the…
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The Secret Files of the Master of Modern Republican Gerrymandering
Thomas Hofeller preached secrecy as he remapped American politics from the shadows. The Republican Party operative, known as the master…
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Argentina Considers a Return to Peronism
Before returning to Argentina from exile, in 1973, Juan Perón famously said, “It is not that we were good, but…
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Will Boris Johnson’s “Late-Night Altercation” Sink His Bid to Become Prime Minister?
What is the British equivalent of being able to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it? The…
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