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 ...

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 ...

Are Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump really the two best candidates for America's most demanding and important job? Hardly. Trump tried to reverse the last election. And ...

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 ...