In the United States, the winner of a presidential election is determined not by a national vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots "electoral votes" to all 50 states and ...

Democrats had better stop assuming that when Trump is gone the political winds will naturally shift back to them.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov. 3 election, even ...

The first, held by the president, his allies and his administration, is that the election was an overwhelming landslide — a ...

Sometimes, you can’t settle the matter in 60 minutes. For most of college football history, you had to. The sport only introduced its first overtime rule in 1996 and since then there have been a few ...

Since partisan politics have become so polarized and compromise has become a dirty word, many voters feel disenfranchised and ...

During the 2024 campaign, voters were repeatedly told that democracy in America was under threat. Polls show that voters believed that — albeit for different reasons based on their political ...

Nwanevu makes three main claims: “that democracy is good, that America is not a democracy, and that America should become a ...

The originalist fallacy that dominates the current Supreme Court—the pretense that it is possible to read the minds of the ...

There were no candidate posters on the main streets and squares, no rallies, or public debates. In the days leading up to the ...

Historian Ulbe Bosma talks about his book on sugar as the 61st conference kicks off at Gustavus Adolphus College.