The highest position of executive power has been held by a woman in just 62 countries since 1960. Since Sirimavo Bandaranaike was first elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960, the number of women in power has grown slowly, with the fastest growth coming in the past 15 years. As of ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new report released Tuesday shows that a nationwide push by prosecutors to re-examine possible wrongful convictions contributed to a record number of exonerations in 2013. The National Registry of Exonerations says 87 people falsely convicted of crimes were exonerated last yea...
After a tumultuous election cycle, the divisive former president has reclaimed the highest office in the nation. Nov. 6, 2024 Agencies Are Revising LGBTQ+ Web Pages The Social Security Administration is among the latest agencies to remove references to transgender and intersex ...
Mr. Trump, who has only had a handful of public events since the election, was at his Virginia golf club when Hogan tweeted. Republican Fred Upton, a congressman from Michigan, also expressed that the election is over for the president, at least in Michigan, as the president's team presen...
Reducing the number of statewide elected offices would shorten the length of the ballot and, more importantly, focus public accountability in a way that people can understand and remember. This would increase accountability both during a governor’s term and in election years when voters...
This article is part ofTPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. We are running a series of articles on progressive victories that came out of the 2020 election at the state and local level. While Democrats debate whether the party has moved too far to t...
We need to protect against the problem of who goes first or last. A property in the literature called "fairness". For example suppose we have an election with three voters; A, B and C. Suppose the votes are encrypted, player C can ensure that the candidate voted for by A wins (and ...
ones out there who simply voted for him to get their taxes lowered, or to install anti- roe justices on the supreme court, or because they like a racist in the white house, but among the most ardent fans there is a consistent theme, and that theme is “these people are nuts.” and...
In the months after the election, says Patricia Russo, “about a third of women who contacted us, who marched and were mad, were not even registered to vote. The second third said, ‘Of course I’m registered to vote.’ But when I asked where they voted in 2016, they said, ‘Oh,...
have developed the tone and platforms of Clinton, O’Malley, and the democratic party this election season, while also passing more legislation than any other candidate, goes right back to work in Congress immediately after having surgery, and works tirelessly on his campaign to help the people...