As a political scientist, I've long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I'm consciously limiting my time, attention and contributions to politics. I’ve turned off the news and social media app notifications on my phone. I plan to visit two or three trustworthy news websites only once a day. And I’ve unsubscribed to candidate fundraising emails. Why? Because while political competition theoretically drives efficient and...
2024, AN ELECTION ABOUT ELECTIONS. The new poll out from Fox News has a number of intriguing findings. For example, it shows that in a two-way, head-to-head matchup, former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 5 points. And in a five-way matchup between Biden, Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein, […]
The Hawaii State Department of Health is aligning its health avisements with the CDC guidelines but still plans to continue to use the dashboard with more than just COVID-19 data.
Mississippi Today is pleased to announce Geoff Pender as Politics and Government Editor. He will oversee the newsroom's day-to-day political reporting.
Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto was announced the winner of the presidential election in one of the world's largest democracies Wednesday over two former governors who vow to contest the result in court over alleged irregularities. Subianto, who was accused of abuses under the past dictatorship and chose the son of the popular outgoing president as his running mate, won 58.6% of the votes. Former Jakarta Gov. Anies Baswedan received 24.9% and former Central Java Gov. Ganjar Pranowo...
Governments and businesses need to invest in ways to prevent transmission, experts say, instead of leaving people on their own.
"The drop in March 2020 had everything to do with a massive drop in demand — nothing else," Patrick De Haan from GasBuddy.com told Snopes.
A concerted Justice Department effort to prosecute those who threatened election workers since 2020 has resulted in 20 prosecutions, the department announced Monday. The news comes as Arizona prosecutors announced the sentencing of a man who threatened to kill Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) in 2022, who previously served as the Arizona Secretary of State. More
An outsize number of the prosecutions have involved Arizona, a swing state that helped clinch President Biden’s 2020 victory and then became hotbed for false conspiracy theories.
(The Center Square) – Parents of Chicago school students are suing the Chicago Teachers Union seeking damages over a teachers strike during COVID-19 that kept children out of school longer.
ST. GEORGE — Washington County Democrats gathered at the Washington City Community Center Saturday afternoon to discuss the party’s platform and elect delegates for the statewide convention in April. There were about 40 people in attendance, who heard from a variety of speakers, including Democrat Brian King, who is running for Governor of Utah. After […]
It must be seen in the context of the series of assaults on democracy that the Modi government has launched since it came to power in 2014.