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November results update

News of recent election outcomes from Germany, Czechia, Japan and the United States.

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Charles Richardson East Asia, Elections, Europe, Germany, United States 3 Comments 4 November 202114 August 2024

Election preview: Virginia & others

America's Republican Party sees Virginia as a crucial step on its road back to power. Tomorrow's race for governor is too close to call.

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Update on gerrymandering

Continued battles over gerrymandering in the US contrast with the way such things are handled in Australia, as exemplified by a redistribution just completed in Victoria.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Electoral law, Political issues, United States Leave a comment 1 November 20211 November 2021

Ninety per cent

After a slow start, Australia's vaccination rate has reached unexpected heights. For some reason, the Trumpism of its leaders has not had the same consequences as in the United States.

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Do recantations matter?

Compare and contrast: Colin Powell and News Corp.

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Broad front for democracy

Hungary's opposition turns to the centre-right to try to save democracy. There may be a lesson there for the United States.

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Results roundup

Results and analysis from four big recent elections: Norway, California, Russia and Canada.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, North America (ex-US), Scandinavia, United States 6 Comments 21 September 202126 January 2022

A recall in California

California's governor looks like surviving an attempt to recall him, but the vote casts a light both on some of the state's quirks and on the mania that's taken hold of the Republican Party.

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Texas vs civilisation

A US supreme court decision raises the prospect of giving the fundamentalists in the Republican Party what they say they want – possibly at a large political cost.

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Charles Richardson Constitutional law, Political issues, United States 11 Comments 3 September 202114 April 2026

Taliban in Central America

Afghanistan isn't the only place where an anti-American autocracy has picked up where it left off. Nicaragua has already been there.

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