Politics & Elections

In a stunning vote, a group of US Senate Democrats has broken ranks to join Republicans in rejecting President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, …

There is a dense fog of suspicion surrounding the final round of El Salvador's presidential elections on March 9th. There have been social media reports of bankers and business …

Jeffrey Sommers and John Quigley analyze the role of Russia and the United States in the Ukraine crisis.

Growing numbers of countries have shown discomfort with the UN drug control treaty regime through soft defection.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never tires of inventing new hoops through which he insists Palestinians jump.

In the wake of Citizens United, there is plenty of discussion of how campaign finance law might be changed to limit political participation by corporations.

India's political parties have avoided substantive issues in favor of finger-pointing at the media.

In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that states and local governments with a history of discrimination no longer needed to submit new voting laws for federal approval.

The Brennan Center published a fact sheet detailing the Roberts Court's shift, in a series of decisions since 2007, toward favoring big money interests at the expense of average …

Gossip and scandal are part of politics; the German media is currently overflowing with these commodities.