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It is not just sectarianism that is ailing the body politic | Leaders India’s democracy is not as healthy as this month’s elections make it seem... (2022)
In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)
Polling is an imperfect attempt at providing insight and explanation. But the public's desire for insight and explanation about elections never end... (2020)
Democrats are tapping into the most popular game of the moment to reach young voters. ... potential of Twitch streams as a voter outreach tool. ... (2020)
We looked at how 16 battleground states have voted in the last five presidential elections to see how they might go in 2020 From one presidentia... (2020)
Why free markets need free politics D Democracy is in trouble. Recent survey data paints a sobering picture: Fifty-five percent of Americans say... (2020)
Abolishing the Electoral College and creating a national popular vote are far-fetched ideas for now. But there’s a more targeted way to reform Amer... (2019)
More than 900 million people — over 10 percent of the world’s population — could head to the polls over several weeks. The government is committed ... (2019)
Many people in Silicon Valley and San Francisco tech circles might not like Anand Giridharadas' vision for actually changing the world. (2018)
vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction. (2018)
These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing. (2018)
First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult - essay by C Thi Nguyen... (2018)
The former president could be jailed within days after Supreme Court judges ruled against him. (2018)
Felicitas Carrique Contributor Share on Twitter Felicitas Carrique is an Argentinian reporter focused on media, technology, and innovation. The abu... (2018)
Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate (2018)
Cambridge Analytica harvested personal information from a huge swath of the electorate to develop techniques that were later used in the Trump camp... (2018)
Election officials have insisted that machines can’t be remotely compromised because they’re not “connected to the internet.” But security experts ... (2018)
DONALD TRUMP, the populist American president-elect, wants to deport undocumented immigrants. Podemos, the populist Spanish party, wants to give im... (2018)
EVER since the late 1990s, international observation of elections has become so widespread that refusing to admit monitors is almost an outright ad... (2018)
Democracy might be mathematically impossible – here’s why. ▀▀▀ Massive thanks to Prof. Eric Maskin for helping with the script. Thanks to Chr... (2024)
Brazil’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has to start serving a 12-year prison sentence immediately, ... (2018)
Puerto Rico's current relationship to the United States is as complicated as its past relationship with the United States. Produced by Paul Myers w... (2018)
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for m... (2020)
On The Sidelines Of Democracy: In recent midterms, 4 in 10 eligible voters cast ballots. Nonvoters talk of apathy, disgust, barriers and other ... (2018)
PredictIt is a New Zealand-based prediction market that offers prediction exchanges on political and financial events. PredictIt is owned and opera... (2020)
Right now, our model thinks Joe Biden is likely to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college (2020)