For the first time, young people aged 16 and 17 in Oakland and nearby Berkeley will be voting in school board elections.

At high schools like Martin Luther King, William H. Bodine, and the Academy at Palumbo, students explore the impact of voting and the importance of informed choices about pressing issues like abortion ...

Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have been campaigning heavily in Pennsylvania and the latest Fox News Poll shows the race is as close as it gets.

The first rule of democracy is to preserve democracy. It’s a turn of phrase that, contrary to the wisdom of a popular motion ...

The Elementary to Postsecondary Student Education Dashboard: Enrolments, Graduations and Tuition Fees comprehensive data visualization tool overviews counts of enrolments and graduations for ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

He faced accusations of human rights abuses in Papua and East Timor, and in 1998, special forces troops under his command had abducted democracy activists in Jakarta, 13 of whom have never been ...

For all of the concerns about this “affective polarization” as a threat to democracy, there is another concerning data point where there is complete bipartisan agreement: People feel that the ...

But I also dressed the part. I wore my tricorne hat (my kids wouldn’t walk within 50 feet of me). Every day, I put on my buckled shoes and my 18th century-style wool stockings. "Noticing the ...

Concern about the health of democratic governments has been rising worldwide, and one of the key metrics researchers use to measure the robustness of a democracy is its ability to conduct free and ...