Have you noticed how many separate elections in Cape May County are designed to avoid rather than engage voters? There are three types of off-cycle elections, and it is worth looking briefly at each.

In 2016, support for populism erupted across the United States of America and catapulted Donald Trump into the Office of ...

Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential Pan-Africanists and the first president of Ghana, once boldly declared, “The ...

He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places vast ...

The order to shut off federal grants reveals a vision of the presidency at odds with basic democratic principles.

One of the top election officials in Arizona’s largest county has drastically downsized a team whose responsibilities ...

At a time when Republicans control all levers of power in Washington and national Democrats are struggling to respond to ...

In a 2020 episode of her podcast, former First Lady Michelle Obama made an important, sobering remark. She said one of the ...

There are many consequences of party turnover. The one I want to highlight in this piece is the cycle of partisan narratives on matters of good governance. What do I mean by that? It is the phenomenon ...