By Edward Lee
It has been a bloody eleven months of brutal fighting between Russia and Ukraine. Thousands of lives have been lost. Billions of dollars of property damage have been incurred. Generational trauma and bitterness have been unleashed. A tsunami of…
By David Cheng
Though many have rightly praised the victory of Joseph Biden over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election as a significant defeat for authoritarian and anti-democratic forces in the United States, last year’s midterm elections presented a dangerous opportunity…
By David Chang
Many people around the world breathed a collective sigh of relief after Brazil concluded its presidential election, and it seems that the people have chosen democracy over authoritarianism. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known in Brazil as just “Lula,”…
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in 2020, the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen has become a core belief among Republican political candidates and their supporters. These right-wing extremists are threatening democracy itself, and the elections…
Joe Biden won the popular vote by 7.1 million (4.5 percentage points), but Donald Trump came within 42,918 votes (Biden’s combined margin of victory in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin) of a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College, which would likely have been…
By virtually every objective measure, Democrats do better. It’s not even close. So why doesn’t America know it? The New Republic
When it comes to considering the top political issues facing the country – immigration, health care and gun control among them – politicians in Congress can give the impression that the public is hopelessly divided on policy solutions. In reality, the polling…
On Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made headlines with a surprise visit to the heavily damaged city of Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine. Though she didn’t address the controversy raging at home over whether to supply Kyiv with powerful German tanks, she…