Politics & Elections

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.

Current European politics is infused with laissez-faire economic ideology despite this orientation's lack of legitimacy given the absence of a meaningful democratic debate on the subject in recent years.

All those fancy-pants are forever protected in their gilded towers, while the rest of us are the ones caught with our pants down.