Elections

Claims and counterclaims of “election interference” are ubiquitous these days. What does the term actually mean?

The hosts of a plugged-in New York City politics podcast wonder if the Mayor is really as weak as his political opponents believe.

The ex-President is having a very hard time pivoting to Kamala Harris.

Georgians are bracing for a crucial election this October. Will the opposition stave off the country’s turn to Russian-style authoritarianism?

Fifty years after Shirley Chisholm ran for the Presidency, we find ourselves yet again questioning the durability of outmoded presumptions about race and gender.

The snap elections yielded a surprising defeat for France’s far right—and a new set of problems for Macron to contend with.

President Macron’s gamble in fighting the far right has to be declared, if not a success, at least not an absolute failure.

Viewed from across the pond, or even from across the Channel, the Labour Party’s wipeout win looks like an anomaly—a liberal bulwark against a wave of right-wing populism.

The country’s nuclear-weapons program is in bad shape, yet it is one of only two nations actively rearming. What’s it all for?

At seventy, the comedian débuts as a movie director with “Unfrosted,” about the invention of the Pop-Tart. And Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger on how to convince an election denier.

El Salvador’s President has targeted critics, sent troops into the legislature, and violated the country’s constitution to maintain his hold on power. Why is he still so popular at home and abroad?

As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend on the absence of any means to challenge it.

A legal scholar analyzes how the nine Justices are likely to view the blockbuster decision.

Months after the election, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s path to taking office remains uncertain.

Is the country really so fed up with the status quo that it will elect a right-wing former TV personality?

Tuesday’s election results in that state and elsewhere offer fresh evidence of how the issue is likely to help Democrats in 2024.

The legendary filmmaker makes the case for his unconventional memoir; plus, the fallout from Rodrigo Duterte’s “kill them all” drug policy in the Philippines.

At the annual conference of the Labour Party this week, Keir Starmer laid out his plans to rebuild the United Kingdom after thirteen years of Conservative misrule.

Every party, at every time, has some tension between its élites and its base. But it’s hard to think of a more spectacular divide than the one currently defining the G.O.P.

The thirty-eight-year-old “anti-woke” polemicist and political novice has become one of Trump’s main rivals.