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Pending a runoff, a ticket led by a former insurgent and Bogotá mayor with a Black feminist activist may seek new regional, global alliances.

Weakened incumbents and diaspora voting could allow the country to change direction after years of graft, mismanagement, and democratic decline.

Recent municipal elections reinforced the political marginalization of already frustrated younger Palestinians.

Flawed laws, enacted in 1845 and 1887, create a dangerous opportunity.

His landslide re-election and Russia's war on Ukraine makes pushback on the region's autocratization harder -- and more needed -- than ever.

Among the many efforts to undermine the 2020 election results, the draft EO stands out, offering a strategy that may be used and abused in future elections.

Militant Hindu nationalists from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party are fueling their campaigns with a conspiracy theory.

Four leading thinkers on U.S. democracy propose concrete steps to protect election officials.

The Biden administration faces another inflection point in its support for a leader opposed by a civil society-led alliance.

Four keys to meaningfully invest in women's political leadership: support existing reforms, transform hostile political institutions, nurture feminist reform coalitions, and tackle…

"Proper reform of the Electoral Count Act would do much more to address the risk of electoral subversion – at least for presidential elections – than many on Twitter and elsewhere…

Movement-building can bring together unlikely bedfellows and allow a diversity of approaches to achieve a shared goal of upholding democracy.