Voter registration is the gateway to voting. But our registration system relies on 19th century practices, and, leaves millions of eligible voters out of the political process.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
After reading Palin's interview in Runner's World, I doubt she'll be off the political stage anytime soon. A presidential campaign is a long race that requires a lot of endurance.
Gayle Tzemach | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
The women community leaders receiving this education in effective campaign tactics will train more than 100 female candidates for Provincial Council in the run-up to the August 20 elections. Of the nearly 3200 candidates running for Provincial Councils nationwide, 328 are female.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
If our soldiers are out of Iraqi cities, and the Iraqi security forces start shouldering more and more responsibility as a result, do we really need all 130,000 troops sitting in their bases?
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Bill Maher blasted the Democratic Party for kowtowing to its corporate paymasters, and bemoaned the lack of real liberals on ballots and television.
Jesse Larner | Posted 06.23.2009 | World
American conservatives who believe that any resistance to tyranny somehow must carry an American trademark would do well to remind themselves that theocracy is incompatible with liberal democracy.
Ming Holden | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
Mongolia may be a post-communist country landlocked between Russia and China, but it is also a country of Buddhists with a unique attitude that lends itself to the Democratic philosophy.
Taufiq Rahim | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The fight is not for the West and against Islam nor vice versa, but is rather a struggle for freedom pure and simple.
Robin Wright | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
In taking an unyielding stand behind the results of the contested vote, Iran's supreme leader put his own position and powers on the line too.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics
The political reality is that -- especially for contentious issues -- there is a very small window for presidents to get things done.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.17.2009 | Media
The State Department asked Twitter to delay a "critical network upgrade" scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use th...
Omid Memarian | Posted 06.16.2009 | World
No matter what happens in the coming days, Obama should not congratulate Ahmadinejad for his victory. He did not win the election, he stole it.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
How will Loefgin justify giving $108 billion in loan guarantees to European banks while her own state goes bankrupt? How will anybody?
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
McAuliffe presented himself as a carpetbagger, pure and simple. Blaming the Clintons is grossly unfair to the former President and the Secretary of State.
Brian Ross | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
They were in the streets of Tehran shouting "Death to the coup d'état! Death to the dictator!" It was the angry backlash of the young, the optimist...
Mark Fowler | Posted 06.10.2009 | World
Regardless of who occupies the Iranian Presidential palace for the next four years, the regime will once more have to seriously address the issue of whether or not to engage with the United States.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.10.2009 | World
The street gatherings that are taking place in the last days and nights before the Iranian election are reminiscent of the sorts of rallies and demonstrations that were eventually called the Revolution.
Ming Holden | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
As an observer, I wasn't sure how uneasy to feel about injecting myself into the thick of things, since last year's June 1st Parliamentary elections resulted in riots on Sukhbaatar Square, the deaths of five people, and the torching of a building or two.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : Noisy North Korea Facts: North Korea performed a nuclear test last weekend which, according to various sei...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
The fight over the Republican primary in Florida is shaping up to be the main-ring event in the GOP's version of the intraparty struggle next year.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.26.2009 | World
To wield soft power, India must defend, assert and promote its culture of openness against the forces of intolerance and bigotry inside and outside the country.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics
Newt Gingrich is a father of Republican nasty-talk.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
New Delhi -- A month after they first queued to vote in India's mammoth general election, the country's voters will learn the outcome on May 16. The e...
Steve Young | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
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Wendy Weiser | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics