Despite its immense power and relentless electoral competition, the BMC has produced a curious paradox--no political party has been able to secure and sustain an absolute majority on its own at the ci ...
If passed, the proposed reserved bill for Nigerian women will increase the number of senators to 146, House of Representatives members to 397, and 1,098 state legislators.
The elections set for March 2026 will test whether the political energy unleashed by the youth uprising can truly break free from transactional politics.
Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...
Persistent anti-Left rhetoric by Right-wing leaders reflects the enduring appeal of socialist ideas, which continue to ...
Britain’s legal system, particularly its commercial courts, is revered around the globe. “We have the finest judiciary in the ...
The border conflict with Cambodia could change electoral politics in Thailand, as voters could rally around the flag and ...
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The road ahead for the opposition

Let me begin with an uncomfortable truth: support for the democratic opposition today remains small. According to WR Numero’s latest survey, only 12 percent of Filipinos identify with the opposition.
Recent studies have shown declining levels of trust in democratic systems. We asked experts to consider democracy’s strengths ...
Ariel Procaccia is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...
The house of representatives has approved a proposal mandating the real-time transmission of election results. The resolution ...
As algorithms become more widespread within government institutions, there are two basic challenges. One is to design better algorithms—increasing transparency, reducing bias, and generally delivering ...