Politics & Voting

A new study finds that despite the rhetoric on both sides of the aisle, voting rules have very small effects in election outcomes

Katie Walsh helps cities manage their climate risks—and champions environmental advocates for office

Tram Nguyen and her family arrived in this country with just $100. Now the first Vietnamese American woman elected to the Massachusetts legislature wants to...

School: School of Arts and Sciences Degree: Bachelor of Arts Home: Any tight-knit community, like the one where I grew up, in Medway, Massachusetts.

A political scientist weighs the odds that the $787.5 million payout will alter the way Fox reports the news

The senator shared advice he got from his mom and other—sometimes painfully won—bits of wisdom

His undergraduate research takes aim at the rise of authoritarianism at home and abroad

The activist and former NAACP Legal Defense Fund president discussed the country’s growing pains as it works to secure voting rights for all

Convincing Americans—especially the young and the marginalized—to cast their ballots is essential to the health of our democracy

A Tufts cybersecurity expert says one of the best ways to secure electronic voting systems is to use equipment that creates a paper record of every vote cast