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America has changed a lot since the days of the Founding Fathers. Does it still make sense to pick our leaders through the Electoral College?
The Labour leader has pledged to discuss "all tactics available" with opposition parties.
Full list of the victims of the twin terror attacks on Norway that have been confirmed by police, family or government sources.
Brexit might actually get interesting. After two years of screaming into the wind, the UK’s elected lawmakers finally get to do something useful.
Idea: Let's put a guy who wants to get a prominent job at an oil company in charge of regulating the oil industry. What could go wrong? These diagrams show the revolving door between government and corporations. Scary, right?
Women remain 'invisible victims' of knife crime, despite a major government effort on domestic violence.
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50 percent of Japan governing lawmakers tied to Unification Church TOKYO -- Japan's governing celebration claimed Thursday that an internal
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Playing up the fact that Harding was connected to so much scandal I thought it would be appropriate to create a snapchat activity based around his "shady" interactions. Great activityfor 1920's Politics.Activity includes handout and summary on 4 of his scandals.
We are, barring a huge upset, about to enter an era of boring government. Good news… unless you’re one of the never-ending procession of people commentating on it. Juliana Close wonders which ones will survive
Samantha Mostyn has a very different CV compared to the previous 10 governors-general.
EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners and MPs are demanding the BBC licence fee be axed after official polling pointed to a major drop in public trust in the broadcaster.
A parliamentary e-petition sponsored by Conservative Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel Garner that calls for the federal government to scrap its firearms ban has been certified with more than 230,000 signatures — the most on the online platform since it was introduced in 2015.
Das neue britische Kabinett von rechtgläubigen Brexit-Anhängern signalisiert einen Regimewechsel.
Conservatives in Canada might also ponder why there have been so many racist and anti-gay bozo eruptions in Alberta's United Conservative Party, rather than in, say, the governing NDP.
The political opportunity is large for a sensible, growth-oriented Conservative leader with solid ideas about how to reshape Canada’s economy as we emerge from the pandemic, Heather Scoffield writes.
Inside the House Freedom Caucus, the ideological and uncompromising band of anti-government radicals who overthrew John Boehner.
These people are spitting out so much truth with these quotes. Can you handle it?
Bei der Wahl zum US-Präsidenten stimmen die Wähler nicht direkt über ihr künftiges Staatsoberhaupt und seinen Stellvertreter ab. Vielmehr wählen sie ein Kollegium aus Wahlmännern und -frauen („Electoral College“), das dann den Präsidenten und seinen Vize kürt. Das müssen Sie über die Rolle der Wahlmänner wissen.
From the iPhone 5S to corporate globalization, modern life is full of evidence of Marx's foresight
The findings emerged from an experiment conducted following revelations by Edward Snowden (pictured) about government snooping on internet accounts.
Parliament is prorogued until Sept. 23. Here's what prorogation means, how it's been used in the past and what comes next.
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