The 2020 presidential elections in Belarus were considered fraudulent by most Western democracies. Despite massive support for opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, which independent monitors ...

The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of the modern authoritarian state,” he writes: ...

How likely is it that federal troops will be in United States cities on election day in 2026? Have federal agencies moved from allies of state and local election administrators to impediments … ...

The president has demanded the department go after one of his foremost enemies, even though career prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey. “Prosecutors have been ...

Today’s entry in the NYU Law Democracy Project’s 100 ideas for 100 days series, by Samuel Moyn, argues for “[m]aking the votes of the younger count for more” in order to counteract the political power ...

The organizers aim to collect 600,000 signatures to ensure they have at least 426,000 valid names to qualify for the statewide November 2026 ballot.” The story goes on to say: “If the law were in ...

An hour before Jimmy Kimmel returned to his show last night, Trump posted: “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. … He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my … Co ...

From the USA Today Network, this particular change caught my attention: “HB 154, which will go into effect on Sept. 30, allows voters to request that their ballot be hand-counted if they live in a ...

In a post yesterday, Ned Foley took issue with the essay from Randy Barnett posted yesterday at NYU’s Democracy Project. Here’s an excerpt from Randy’s piece, so readers can understand the context of ...

Nebraska Examiner reports on the Common Cause lawsuit.

When people perceive politics as existential, they believe the country will never be the same, in a fundamental way, if the other side prevails. The other side is not merely the opposition, but … Cont ...

Over at TPM, I wonder whether a brilliant bit of South Park satire may shed some helpful light on the magical wishcasting of unilateral federal executive control over electoral process.