Poland’s ruling conservative nationalist party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, a result that likely will lead it to seek to exert even more control over the country’s judiciary and deepen a showdown with the European Union.
Read moreAmericans are showing more animosity toward members of the opposing political party, with the majority of both Republicans and Democrats saying those on the other side of the aisle are too close-minded, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreMinnesota Libertarians brought a federal complaint Wednesday over a state law that bans voters who sign their party petitions from voting in primary elections.
Read moreHappier to team up in court than on the ballot, two New York political parties have sued to overturn an election law that consolidates political endorsements.
Read moreMost Americans view the state of their personal finances positively, but their opinions on the economy as a whole and President Donald Trump’s effect on it are deeply divided by political affiliations, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreTaking aim at a new commission promised to make New York elections fairer, dozens of voters, candidates and political organizations claim in court that the resulting hit to fusion voting will ultimately hurt equality.
Read moreAny day now Italy’s coalition government — molded from an unlikely alliance of two populist parties drawn from the left and the right — could fall and plunge Europe into a new crisis.
Read moreThe first day of a trial on partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina kicked off Monday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal in June to wade into the dispute.
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Complaining that it costs over $600,000 to collect signatures to get on a general election ballot in Texas, the Libertarian Party and others sued the state in federal court Thursday alleging its election laws favor Republicans and Democrats in races for statewide office.
Read moreOpposition lawmakers in Italy on Thursday demanded that Interior Minister Matteo Salvini appear in Parliament about allegations that a covert Russian oil sale scheme was devised to fund his pro-Moscow League party.
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Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Read moreSocialism was once used as a euphemism for Communism in the 20th century and has long carried negative connotations. A new survey shows that while the concept has gained traction in modern public discourse, it still lags well behind the popularity of capitalism in America.
Read moreThe en banc D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that it will keep in place an installment plan for nearly $250,000 bequeathed to the Libertarian Party.
Read moreAn American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections.
Read moreThe last time President Trump sat down with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Trump walked out in a huff and dismissed their government shutdown talks as a “total waste of time.”
Read moreIn an election fought largely over questions of national identity and Catalonia’s secessionist drive, Spain’s Socialist party claimed victory on Sunday as the conservative electorate was split by the rise of a new far-right political force.
Read moreWith the April 15 tax deadline fast approaching, a new survey shows overall public perceptions of the 2017 tax code overhaul have changed little in the last year, but the partisan divide over tax fairness generally has grown to the widest level in two decades as the 2020 campaign heats up.
Read moreA legislative amendment that allows minor parties to establish caucus campaign committees moots a challenge to Kentucky’s campaign-finance laws brought by a Libertarian candidate, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
Read moreAustralia’s prime minister has accused an influential minor political party of trying to “sell Australia’s gun laws to the highest bidders” by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations.
Read moreConsidering the issue for the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to pin down when, whether and how to tackle gerrymandering driven by political, rather than racial, bias.
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