Elections

As a result of Jackson's 1984 campaign, Arab Americans were provided a first-ever opportunity to organize and become established as a national constituency.

To get the money out of politics, Ben Cohen and others are stamping all of their dollars with messages like “not to be used for buying elections.”

Thailand needs to break off from the past. Thailand needs a clean slate.

Ten unionists were martyred in a 1989 bombing by right-wing death squads, targeted because they were union leaders.

Historian and Latin America expert Greg Grandin looks at two recent elections in Latin America with historic implications.

Simple-minded devotion to so-called “behind-the-scenes” consultations among candidate Romney and his family plunges the documentary “Mitt” into the abyss of know-nothing, self-affirming reality TV.

How much does humanity have to suffer before it learns that having healthy children in a healthy environment is the greatest of all riches, asks Peter G. Cohen

New theorists and activists argue that France's “representative democracy” is neither democratic nor representative, and they argue for a return to the Athenian model.

Greg Palast: Far more insidious than Chris Christie playing traffic warden is the story of his secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires - and the legality of campaign …

When Delhi state's November elections brought the new anticorruption Aam Admi Party to power, calculations about India's upcoming national elections were upset, and a previously narrow field suddenly widened.