Panelists at this AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project conference will review the election reform lessons to be learned from the 2006 midterm elections. They will discuss the problems that occurred as well as the federal and state reforms to be considered in the near future. A keynote address by Congressman Vernon...

Barack Obama's candidacy is one of many signs that the United States has turned a page.

A statute to ensure the voting rights of minorities in 1965 has become a gerrymandering tool to further the interests of political parties and incumbent politicians.

Barack Obama's candidacy is one of many signs that the United States has turned a page.

Through the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute plan a collaborative effort extending through the 2008 presidential election to develop a bipartisan, practical national policy for election reform. Participants will synthesize research, monitor the implementation of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and...

Syria refuses to give up its support of terrorist organizations despite encouragement from the Obama administration to do so, and it remains a destabilizing and dangerous force in the region.

Race-driven districting is the product of a bygone era and should be ended, and it should be replaced by a celebration that black politics has come of age in the United States.