List of Elections articles
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Palestinian woman walks past election mural in Gaza. The Return of Palestinian Politics
Elections in May will be the first since 2006—a remarkable but risky gambit.
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Supporters of Hernando de Soto attend a campaign rally. Peru’s Election Is About to Make Its Problems Worse
This weekend’s vote will deepen the pandemic-ravaged country’s impasse.
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Mansour Abbas, head of the Israeli party Raam. An Arab Kingmaker in Israeli Politics?
With election results deadlocked, an Arab-led party is seen as a possible swing faction.
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a billboard of Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. Exit Polls Put Netanyahu on Track to Win Israeli Election
He appears to have beaten back challengers who include defectors from his own party.
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Gantz and Netanyahu on an election billboard in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu Stumbles Before Election as UAE Deal-Signing Blocked
$10 billion for trains, ports, and pipelines was supposed to show off his peacemaking prowess.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in front of a picture of Zeev Jabotinsky. Israel’s Likud Isn’t the Party of Law and Order Anymore
In his constant quest for power, Benjamin Netanyahu is abandoning the Israeli right’s legalist traditions.
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Armin Laschet, chairman of Germany's German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, attends a press conference in Berlin on March 15. German Voters Just Dealt Merkel’s Party a Body Blow
Ahead of national elections in September, the CDU has to decide where to go from here.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump. How Do You Say ‘Stop the Steal’ in Hebrew?
As another Israeli election nears, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surrogates take a page from Trump’s playbook.
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Israeli lawmaker and leader of centrist Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 2, 2015. How a Journalist-Turned-Politician Became the Best Hope for Israel’s Anyone-but-Bibi Camp
Centrist Yair Lapid refused to join Netanyahu’s coalition last year. Now the decision is paying off.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberates with then-U.S. President Donald Trump at the G-7 summit Charlevoix, Canada, on June 9, 2018. America Is Back. But Can Allies Ever Trust It Again?
Fears of another Trump make it even more urgent that allies work with Biden now.
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A police officer grips a corner of a torn U.S. flag at a memorial ceremony in New York on Sept. 11, 2004. How Civil Wars Start
Three factors come into play, and the United States demonstrates all of them.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni stops to speak to supporters as he heads back to his residence in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan. 21. Uganda’s Museveni Won’t Go Quietly
Emboldened by his recent reelection and longtime Western support, the entrenched president appears determined to quash his opposition.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to city officials and employees of Double Eagle Energy at the site of an active oil rig in Midland, Texas, on July 29, 2020. The Death of the Carbon Coalition
Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.
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Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump protest inside the U.S. Capitol Why Partisan Hostility Won’t End With Trump
The U.S. political system is designed for demonization and gridlock. Countries with proportional representation and parliamentary systems promote coalitions and cooperation among rivals.
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A girl walks toward her tent at a displacement camp for people affected by intense flooding in Beledweyne, Somalia, on Dec. 14, 2019. Somalis Need More Than an Election to Lift Them Out of Economic Despair
Somalis are having the wrong national dialogue.
