Decisions on voting rights provide further evidence for the centrality of race to the Republican identity.
Category: United States
How UKIP saved the world (sort of)
Another way of looking at the Trump-Brexit analogy.
Race and the Republicans
The history of the last fifty years in the Republican party shows how the conservative movement sowed the seeds of its own destruction. It's not clear how it can ever be rebuilt.
World election news
A roundup of election news from Austria, the United States, Mongolia and Australia.
Is it 1964 all over again?
Donald Trump's train wreck of a campaign raises thoughts of 1964, the last time the Democrats won a landslide.
Happy birthday, Miranda!
For fifty years now, police in America have had to observe procedural safeguards that protect suspects' rights, and the sky has still not fallen in. But some haven't learned the lesson.
Final Tuesday, live
Results as they appear from the last states to hold primaries.
A three-party America?
The Libertarian Party has hopes of becoming something like a mainstream European-style liberal party. But it needs to come to terms with the fact that plenty of liberals are happy enough as Clinton Democrats.
Talking about realignment
Could the Republican Party become the party of the old-fashioned welfare state while the Democrats become the party of free enterprise?
Enter the Libertarian
America's Libertarians again choose Gary Johnson as their standard-bearer. And now that we know who the candidates are, some interest is starting to focus on the dynamics of the Electoral College.
The World is Not Enough 