Every policy pronouncement from Washington or your state capital carries an implicit promise: Government can deliver what it pledges. Yet when systems collapse under their own complexity — requiring ...

Lost amid the cacophony over the bitter presidential campaign and the rampant concerns about the poor health of U.S. democracy is a set of initiatives on state ballots that are likely to have far more ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The Trump administration has enabled a small network of high-tech oligarchs to determine a vast ...

The left and right don’t agree on much, but many on both sides do agree on one thing: the system is broken. Over the past decade, anti-system political movements have surged, from Brexit in 2015 to ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

As Afghanistan grapples with the aftermath of the Taliban’s return to power, the country faces the daunting task of rebuilding its political institutions from the ground up. The failures of the ...