The 2026 midterms are well underway, and a familiar pattern is emerging: Turnout remains doggedly low. Most recently, just21% ...

During China’s imperial age, those deemed guilty of the worst offenses were sometimes sentenced to death in a public square by a brutal form of execution known as lingchi. Soldiers — using sharp ...

Voter turnout – both statewide and in Los Angeles County – saw a drop during the 2024 general election compared to four years earlier, according to a new report by USC’s Center for Inclusive Democracy ...

The highly competitive race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom helped boost turnout among registered voters to nearly 41%.

Tova Wang, director of research projects in democratic practice at the Ash Center, shares her top picks for summer reads ...

Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. On March 7, 1965, the world looked on in horror as activists were bloodied ...

These are important questions now that voting has opened. The results of these elections, which happen every three years, will shape how New Zealanders live, work and travel around the country’s small ...