On June 10, 2000, London opened the Millennium Footbridge, a futuristic pedestrian path spanning the River Thames, hanging ...

This was, once again, a short postal election, minimally advertised, and characterised by multiple barriers to voting and a ...

They are bracing for what is expected to be a contentious period of counting and certifying votes, in which discord fueled by ...

They claim the popular vote at-large would be a better method, because it represents the will of the people, or “democracy.” This argument ignores or fails to understand the purpose and design of the ...

Technically speaking, this stage is optional, but it makes things a lot faster if the documents are pre-processed and accessed from a vector database, rather than processed at runtime. When a user ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

He faced accusations of human rights abuses in Papua and East Timor, and in 1998, special forces troops under his command had abducted democracy activists in Jakarta, 13 of whom have never been ...

For all of the concerns about this “affective polarization” as a threat to democracy, there is another concerning data point where there is complete bipartisan agreement: People feel that the ...

But I also dressed the part. I wore my tricorne hat (my kids wouldn’t walk within 50 feet of me). Every day, I put on my buckled shoes and my 18th century-style wool stockings. "Noticing the ...

Concern about the health of democratic governments has been rising worldwide, and one of the key metrics researchers use to measure the robustness of a democracy is its ability to conduct free and ...

But it’s actually more like an object lesson, or a warning to those who insist that whatever else may go wrong, a stable and established liberal democracy cannot collapse into chaos ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s ...