Elections Archives

Elections

The Race for Second Place

The Republican primaries as farce

Sample Truths

One of the few clear goods to have emerged from the social and political turmoil of the past decade is a collapse of faith in public opinion polls. Last fall’s…

What’s in a Vote?

by Danielle Allen, Jamelle Bouie, Jason Brennan, Sarah Smarsh, Astra Taylor,

Electoral politics in an ailing democracy

Reality Check

by Christopher Beha,

On the morning of May 26, Donald Trump posted a pair of tweets about voting by mail. “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than…

Politics as Usual

by Alicia Yin Cheng,

From This Is What Democracy Looked Like, which will be published in June by Princeton Architectural Press. The book is an illustrated history of the paper ballots used in U.S.…

Common Enemy

by Ian Buruma,

The emerging resistance to Chinese Empire

Election Bias

by Andrew Cockburn,

The new playbook for voter suppression

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

The Counterparty