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This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content, including images, audio, and video — became widely available. That’s raising fears that millions of voters could be deceived by a barrage of political deepfakes.
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Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and protect democratic institutions from anti-democratic threats, according to a groundbreaking paper published by a University at Buffalo political philosopher.
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Dozens of open judgeships throughout the South Carolina courts will go unfilled amid an unresolved debate over the state’s system of judicial selection.
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Untethered from partisan politics and uninterested in keeping up with political news, here is how some Americans view the current state of U.S. politics.
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Over the past three years, the world’s oldest democracy has been tested in ways not seen in decades
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The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society into two mutually distrustful political camps that harms democracy.
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One side alleges “textbook” gerrymandering; the other says it’s about politics, not race.
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So far this year, at least 14 states have enacted laws making it harder to vote, while 23 states have enacted laws making it easier.
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Women are not only underrepresented as political candidates across the country, they're also underrepresented as donors.
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Two Harvard projects aim to rid the country of unfair voting systems