Elections

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Freedom from Corruption v. Freedom of Speech: The Citizens United Case

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Giving Ban, Court Precedent, Sotomayor, Elections, Stare Decisis, Citizens United v. FEC, Politics News

After Republicans sought repeated assurances from Justice Sotomayor that she'd follow the law, and precedent, we are about to found out of Republican appointees likewise feel bound to that commitment.

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Tightening the Corporate Grip: The Stakes at the Supreme Court

Robert Weissman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Money and Politics, Supreme Court, Corporate Speech, Elections, Mccain-Feingold, Corporations, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Overturning the court's precedents on corporate election expenditures would be nothing short of a disaster.

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Karzai: U.S. Is Attacking Me Over Election Because It Wants Me To Be More "Docile"

AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Karzai Election, Hamid Karzai, Elections, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, World News

PARIS — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says in an interview published in France that the United States is attacking him because it wants to him t...

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Diebold's End: Consolidation of Largest Voting Companies Shows Need to Reform Elections

Rob Richie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Diebold, Voting Machines, Elections, Election Systems & Software, Black Box Voting, Fairvote, Sequoia, Voting, Politics News

The United States' largest voting equipment vendor just bought the second-largest, Diebold. 120 million registered voters live in jurisdictions using one of these two companies' systems

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Revolution in Japan

John Feffer | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Liberal Democratic Party, Japan, Hatoyama, World News

According to the polls, the Japanese are likely to give the ruling party the boot on Sunday.

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Senator Ted Kennedy: The Lion In Water

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Richard Nixon, Chevy Chase, Politics, Gerald Ford, Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, United States Senate, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Ted Kennedy was undoubtedly the lion of the Senate who lived a long and consistent life as a public servant. Not even political foes can argue that hi...

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Sen. Ted Kennedy: A Loss for the Nation Should Not Mean a Loss for Democracy

Rob Richie | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feingold, Filibuster, Mccain, Massachusetts Senate Vacancy, Ted Kennedy, Elections, Politics, Senate, Deval Patrick, Health Care Reform, Politics News

As the nation honors Sen. Kennedy, I trust his former advisers will drop this effort to revise Massachusetts law in pursuit of short-term partisan advantage.

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5 Thoughts on the Afghan Elections

Patrick Barry | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Kandahar, Kabul, Elections, Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, Helmand, Karzai, Thier, Afghan Election, World News

With the Afghan elections having taken place today amidst extraordinarily difficult circumstances, I thought I would offer up a few things to keep in mind when reading the coverage.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hamid Karzai, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Pakistan, ETA Basque, Fatah, Noordin Mohammed Top, China, Aung, Elections, Marwan Barghouti, Colombia, Baitullah Mehsud, Alvaro Uribe, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chaudry, World News

These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Afghan Elections SI Analysis: Presidential elections in Afghanistan will be held on 20 August....

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Moldova Elections: Communists Lose

Huffington Post | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

Read More: Moldova Europe, Russia, Moldova Protests Twitter, Moldova Reelctions, Soviet, Communists, Elections, Eastern Europe, Moldova Communist Party, Moldova Parliament, Moldova, Moldova Vote, Moldova Communism, Moldova Protests, Voting, Moldova Elections, World News

Moldova's pro-Western opposition parties have defeated the Communist Party in repeat parliamentary elections. With most of the votes tabulated, the C...

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Political Upheaval in Honduras: Elections Will Help, but Not Cure, the Problem

Daniel Altschuler | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Crisis, Elections, Quality of Democracy, Democratic Breakdown, Honduras Coup, Honduras, Honduras Election, Manuel Zelaya, World News

Honduras must address the decline in the quality of democracy that predates the current crisis, or else it will remain dangerously susceptible to more breakdowns.

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"Birthers" Hit a Nerve

Tamar Abrams | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hawaii, Birthers, Elections, Air Force, John McCain, Hokkaido, Indonesia, Obama Hawaii, New Mexico, President Obama, Canada, U.S., Panama, Japan, Politics News

I vote to eliminate this antiquated requirement. Presidents should be chosen for their acumen and not for a word or two on a birth certificate.

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Twitter Revolution or Iranian Evolution?

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Iran, Microsoft, Reporters-Uncensored, Tala Dowlatshahi, Twitter, United4iran.Org, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Technology, News, Facebook, International, Nedamyrights, World News

Parsi admits all forms of social networking tools remain critical to documenting injustices inside Iran, but some, he believes, were not as competitive as Facebook and SMS.

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Afghanistan: The Real Exit Strategy - Free and Fair Elections

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan Surge, Elections, Afghan Elections, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

Karzai's approval rating has dropped 60% since he's taken office. Afghans are tired of the corruption and lack of leadership. They loath the warlords who, quite frankly, belong in the Hague not in his cabinet.

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Ballots Not Bullets for Afghanistan

Amb. Tim Carney | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan War, World News

If Afghans believe their government can ensure that their basic needs are met, then they will not support those who seek to undermine it through force and intimidation.

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The Beginning of the End of the Iraq War?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Troops, President Obama, Timetable, Status of Forces Agreement, Obama, Election, 130000, Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Bush, Iraqi, Elections, Surge, Al-Maliki, Chris Weigant, Sofa, Iraq War, National Sovereignty Day, Iraq, Milestone, Maliki, Cities, Timetable for Withdrawal, World News

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?

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Mayor-For-Life

Daniel Menaker | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Elections, Golf, Term Limits, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Billonaire, Bloomberg Third Term, New York News

Generally, this spring, the Mayor has seemed prickly about many things. All of these prickles are growing, in my pseudo-psychoanalytic opinion, out of that term-limits override, engineered who knows how?

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A Day Nigerians And Iranians Would Never Forget

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Elections, Khomeni, Ahmadinejad, Iranians, Nigerians, World News

On June 12, Nigerian hopes were lost when the 1993 election was annulled. Sixteen Junes later, Iranians face a similar plight.

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The One Thing 39 Million Iranians Decisively Voted For

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Elections, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Iran Election, Democracy, Iran, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khatami, Ayatollah Khomeini, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News

Out of 46.2 million eligible voters, a staggering 39 million came out to vote, making a strong, unequivocal statement: Iranians value democracy

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Inside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Head

GlobalPost | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Fraud, Elections, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, New England Patriots, Iran, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Election, World News

There's been a lot of talk about the key players in the Iranian election saga, but little mention of their psychological motivations. So we decided to...

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Prague, Beirut, or Tiananmen? Iran Teeters on the Edge

Mark Levine | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Iran, Democracy, Obama, Middle East, Revolution, Obama Middle East, World News

It's hard not to wonder why a government that is confident it won fair and square would authorize police to beat citizens with abandon.

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June 12 Elections in Iran: A New Future?

Amnesty International | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Amnesty International, Elections, Iran, Human Rights, Iran Election, World News

As Iranians prepare to go to the polls to elect their president, human rights has surprisingly emerged as a subject of debate among the four candidates.

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Young and Running for Office: A Story from East L.A.

David D. Burstein | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Emanuel Pleitez, Elections, Politics, Latino, Hilda Solis, Youth Vote, Youth, Civic Engagement, David Burstein, Facebook, Ethnic-Politics, News, Barack Obama, Los Angeles-California, Politics News

Embodying the millennial spirit of pragmatic idealism, Pleitez is running a campaign predicated on listening and engaging people at the grassroots level.

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Note to GOP: It's the Independents, Stupid

Mark Nickolas | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Job Approval, Independent Voters, Elections, Right Track/Wrong Track, 2012 Election, 2010 Elections, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News

It doesn't take a political rocket scientist to understand the spiral death trap that the GOP seems to be in when it comes to the most critical bloc of voters: independents.

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Miss Mumbai AWOL on Election Day

Meenakshi Ravi | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, India, Mumbai, Voting, 26/11, World News

The Mumbaiyya spirit - it's sassy, undaunted, some parts flashy, some parts classy and very driven. Or at least that's the facade. Sure, Mumbai and it...

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