Campaigns & Elections

The milk section of a grocery store is pictured in Los Angeles April 7, 2011. On the streets of America, the debate over inflation is over. Prices are too high and rising too fast, many people say. But policy-makers at the U.S. Federal Reserve largely agree that promoting economic growth is still more urgent that constraining a nascent pick-up in consumer prices. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD)

FixGov

Inflation politics is clearer than inflation economics

William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck

Friday, January 14, 2022

FILE PHOTO: An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

Podcast Episode

Is American democracy failing?

Elaine Kamarck and Fred Dews

Friday, January 14, 2022

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on voting rights during a speech on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

Podcast Episode

Will Biden’s call for Senate filibuster reform carve out a path for voting rights?

Rashawn Ray and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Biden’s first year: Successes, failures, and what lies ahead

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Reports

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron take part in the final session of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall in Britain, June 13, 2021. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — October 2021

Thursday, October 21, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

Report

Fulton County, Georgia’s Trump Investigation

Norman Eisen, Joshua Matz, Donald Ayer, Gwen Keyes Fleming, Colby Galliher, Jason Harrow, and Raymond P. Tolentino

Monday, October 4, 2021

Wristbands for voters are seen at a polling station during early voting in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young - S1BEUGZEKGAA

Report

Voter registration at tax time

Vanessa Williamson and Jackson Gode

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

(L to R): Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, France's President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel pose for a family photograph of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, England on June 11, 2021. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2021

Thursday, July 22, 2021

2020 Elections

Demographics & Population

Turnout in 2020 election spiked among both Democratic and Republican voting groups, new census data shows

William H. Frey

May 5, 2021

Blog Posts

A supporter of Kenya's Opposition leader Raila Odinga walks past his election posters before the Azimio la Umoja (Declaration of Unity) rally to unveil his August 2022 Presidential race candidature at the Moi International Sports centre in Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya December 10, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in Focus

African democracy in 2022: 3 elections to watch

Danielle Resnick

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden convenes a virtual summit with leaders from democratic nations at the State Department's Summit for Democracy, at the White House, in Washington, U.S. December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis

FixGov

The Biden Democracy Summit: Will it actually work?

Norman Eisen, Andrew Kenealy, and Mario Picon

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Navajo youths attend a town hall event with Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Navajo Nation casino in Flagstaff, Arizona March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec

How We Rise

What might we expect from Native American voters in the upcoming 2022 election?

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Thursday, December 16, 2021

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Events

2021 elections: Results and implications

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Interpreting the 2021 German federal election results

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

Mexico’s midterm elections: The future of the López Obrador presidency and US-Mexico relations

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Experts

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Multimedia

German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet, Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) attend a television debate with presenters Tina Hassel and Wolfgang Ischinger in Berlin, Germany, June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang/Pool

Germany

Who will be the next chancellor of Germany?

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Jeremy Cliffe, Ben Walker, and Khuê Phạm

The New Statesman

Monday, August 2, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2021. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Podcast Episode

Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s impeachment, and the politics ahead

Elaine Kamarck and Fred Dews

Friday, January 22, 2021

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hold their party symbols and flags as they gather to celebrate after learning of the initial poll results of the Bihar state assembly election and by-elections in Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh states, in Gandhinagar, India, November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC2C0K98BBEN

India

Biden, Bihar, and US-India bonhomie

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

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Protesters march during a brief rally after the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman found guilty of killing George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021. REUTERS/Eric Miller

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Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks after preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election were announced in Najaf, Iraq October 11, 2021. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

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Supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) sing slogans ahead of the launch of an election manifesto at the church square in Pretoria, South Africa, September 27, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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