Two prominent political allies of former US President Donald Trump are being probed by public prosecutors for their involvement in possible election interference in the battleground state of Georgia during the 2020 US presidential elections. Trump narrowly lost the state after unsuccessfully trying to overturn the results by claiming …
any Americans hoped for a new era in US politics when Congress passed the bipartisan McCain-Feingold bill on campaign finance reform in 2002. The Campaign Reform Act set limits on individual contributions as well as on those made by political action committees (PACs), and required …
On August 2, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US Congress, paid a high-profile visit, in a military aircraft, to Taiwan. Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities, who openly pursue independence in their party platform, received her with full protocol. In doing so, she openly broke …
To understand where partisan animosity comes from and what can be done to address it, Sean Westwood, an associate professor of government, and researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University have teamed up to launch the Polarization Research Lab. Survey and experimental data show that …
Democrat Michael Franken, wearing a U.S. Navy baseball cap, addressed a rain-drenched crowd at the Iowa State Fair Monday. “We need to put country over party,” he said. “We need to put people over politics.” Franken, a retired U.S. Navy admiral running for the U.S. Senate, used his seven-minute Des …
A Russian man orchestrated a yearslong effort to puppeteer political groups in Florida, Georgia and California to sow discord in the US, spread pro-Russia propaganda and meddle in American elections, justice department officials alleged on Friday. Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov of Moscow was charged with conspiring to have …