Party discipline shapes Canada’s Parliament. Practical reforms could empower MPs, restore debate and improve policymaking.

The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans and forced more than 1 million ...

This is truly an era of “leftist rampage.” The Lee Jae-myung government, which had been dormant for a while, is now revealing its true colors. Ignoring the separation of powers, it has subjected the ...

The House of Commons is set for one final vote on the main budget motion that will determine if the fiscal policy can go ...

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Already, Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois have said their MPs would be voting against the government’s fiscal plan, ...

It’s one thing to say voters can punish an MP for their decisions at the next election – but that may not be for some time ...

Our research in our book No “I” in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics points to a simple, powerful answer: ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs says she is “looking at proposals’’ to enact state law to ensure disclosure when companies seeking ...

“Pat Buchanan is a towering figure in American statesmanship. Six decades of public service—from his early days as a young ...

In 1975, Gough Whitlam made history becoming the only Australian Prime Minister fired from office. 50 years later, we take a ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, plans to ask Trump for a ...