What calculations determine who ends up in parliament? Mathematician Filip Moons dug into the numbers behind the Dutch electoral system and even wrote a book about it: From Vote to Seat (Van Stem tot ...

Is the real threat to American democracy one of its own institutions? New York’s electors, 1933. (Bettmann / Getty) We Americans live in a debased version of democracy in which basic parts of the ...

For more than 200 years the Electoral College has been the key factor in determining the results of the presidential races in America. But many Americans want the the president to be elected by the ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "Do We Still Need the Electoral College?" in the video player above. When Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, he became the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Convoluted, cumbersome, just plain crazy — the way the United States elects a president is, understandably, widely disparaged. In fact, 1792 is the last time the process worked the way the framers of ...

When the Framers drafted the Constitution in 1787, they could not have predicted the many changes and advances that our society has undergone since the 18th Century. However, through their genius and ...

The 2024 presidential election has so far been a turbulent ride, with weeks of tension between Joe Biden and his party over calls for the president to step aside due to concerns he can’t win in ...

Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had to win, it’s ...