Campaigns & Elections

U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by members of Congress as he arrives to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis/POOL

The 2020 presidential candidates need to stop using Black Americans as symbols, and deliver substance

Thursday, February 6, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

State of the Union: A preview of Trump’s reelection strategy

William A. Galston

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Precinct 38 caucus, in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Democrats and Republicans caucus on the same day in the state.Iowa Caucuses Underway

The tragedy of the Iowa Caucus

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

A desert locust is seen on the farmer's hand in a grazing land on the outskirt of Dusamareb in Galmudug region, Somalia December 22, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Africa in the news: Nagy visits Africa, locust outbreak threatens East Africa, and Burundi update

Payce Madden and Anna Schaeffer

Saturday, February 1, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks with former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) listening at the seventh Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

Just how demographically skewed are the early Democratic primary states?

William H. Frey

Friday, January 31, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Local residents listen as Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S., January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Iowa Caucus 2020: A guide to understanding the results

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Democratic presidential candidates entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Amy Klobuchar and billionaire activist Tom Steyer on the stage for the sixth 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidates campaign debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Kyle Grillot

Around the halls: What Brookings experts hope to hear in the Iowa debate

Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Aaron Klein, Molly E. Reynolds, and John Hudak

Monday, January 13, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is seated prior to testifying before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence operations on social media platforms on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1F1C782B50

Twitter’s ban on political advertisements hurts our democracy

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

People look at their smartphones in lower Manhattan in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RC1AD90F8460

Regulating fact from fiction: Disinformation in political advertising

Friday, December 20, 2019

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden greets Senator Bernie Sanders as Senator Amy Klobuchar looks on at the 2020 campaign debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake - HP1EFCK02SG02

The Democratic Debate: Sens. Klobuchar, Warren take on Mayor Pete

William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck

Friday, December 20, 2019