American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly ...

The definition of what constitutes a political dynasty is important for President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr., Senate ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

This article proposes the Political System Index (PSI), a non-normative framework for analysing political systems through Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. Unlike conventional democracy indices ...

Lindsey Williams Drath is CEO of the Forward Party. The current structures of America’s political system encourage toxic polarization, extreme policy positions, and blatant self-interest. No wonder we ...

PARIS—French democracy wasn’t built for the crisis that’s enveloping the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. In an effort to pull France out of its fiscal spiral, Macron is exhausting a battery of tools ...

You might be imagining someone who takes their time considering the candidates and their positions on the issues, who generally has faith in the political system, who sometimes votes for Republicans ...

Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years. Even in ...

This essay appears in our current print issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Subscribe to get a copy. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very ...