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President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolutionary Guards, a former US diplomat says.

As President Trump and other Republicans cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US electoral system, other democracies offer lessons in protecting the integrity of voting systems.

Many Americans are unhappy with the two major parties but seldom support alternatives. New England is an exception.

Polls indicate majority support for abortion rights in most states, but laws differ greatly between places that uphold such rights and those that ban the procedure.

A gobsmacking amount of money is spent on federal elections in the US. The credit or blame for that reaches back to a landmark, 50-year-old Supreme Court decision.

For body cameras to function as transparency tools, wrongdoing would have to be consistently penalized, highlighting the consequences of noncompliance.

From the civil rights era of the 1960s until today, white victims of government violence have received disproportionate attention.

This year marks the 150th birthday of Colorado and is a chance to examine the state's history.

Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have set up roadblocks and attacked property and security forces in the days following their leader's death.

AI systems are getting good at optimizing persuasion in commerce. They are also quietly becoming tools for strategic influence.