This November, millions of Americans will head to polling stations across the country to cast their votes — for a slate of ...

The American founders are justifiably famous for their political wisdom. So why did they build the strange contraption called ...

A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

The United States’ presidential election system has been a source of contention since the delegates to the Constitutional ...

Maybe it would be a good thing if the former president won the popular vote for once—as long as he doesn’t win the election.

The system by which a group of electors decides the outcome of the election — rather than the popular vote — was born out of the 1787 Constitutional ... president James Madison had observed.

One of the chief justifications for the Electoral College, advanced by its advocates, is that small, lightly populated states require protection for interests that would be overwhelmed by large ...

It seems that every four years, we are told that, “This election is the most important election ever.” We have been ...

In 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes. But in 2016 he won in the Electoral College ...

As John Adams saw the political world, there were essentially three main forms of government—monarchy, aristocracy, and ...

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...