New census figures for the United States are good news for the Republican Party, but not as much so as they might have expected.
Author: Charles Richardson
Germany five months out
Germany's two leading parties have both announced their standard-bearers for September's election. Will they end up governing together for the first time?
Election preview: Albania
Another Balkan election on Sunday, with Albania's two-term government facing an uncertain fate.
April results roundup
This month our regular electoral roundup brings news from Greenland, Samoa, Georgia and Western Australia.
Dealing with Putin
Russia's president no longer has a friend in the White House, but his strategic aims, such as they are, remain the same. Joe Biden faces the challenge of how to respond.
Death of a show pony
Andrew Peacock was a flawed Liberal leader, but it is not mere nostalgia to think that he was a great deal more admirable than most of his successors.
Victory in the drug war?
The momentum for marijuana legalisation in the United States now seems unstoppable, but the lessons may not generalise to other countries and other issues.
Disaster in Peru
A fragmented presidential election in Peru sends two extremist candidates into the runoff, far left against far right.
Representing prisoners, and others
Preventing prisoners from voting in the United States has some strange effects on the workings of the electoral system. Australia is more fortunate in that regard, as a current round of redistributions illustrates.
Two presidential previews
South American neighbors Ecuador and Peru vote on Sunday in contrasting presidential elections.
The World is Not Enough 