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What a Coalition Government Is, and How One Forms
A coalition government is one in which two or more parties share power to form a parliamentary majority that no single party…
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Governance, elections and policy — reframed. Cubed News politics coverage works each story from three angles: the context behind a decision, the perspectives that matter, and the stakes for the people affected. Edited by Naomi Hartley.
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What a Caucus Is, and How It Differs From a Primary
A caucus is a party-run, in-person meeting to pick candidates and delegates, unlike a government-run primary with secret ballots.
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What a Whistleblower Is, and How the Law Protects Them
A whistleblower reports work-related wrongdoing in the public interest, and many countries protect them by banning retaliation.
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What Martial Law Is, and What It Does and Doesn’t Allow
Martial law is the temporary transfer of civilian government to the military during an emergency, bounded by constitutions and courts.
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What NATO Is, and How Its Alliance Works
NATO is a 32-member North American and European defence alliance whose members pledge that an armed attack on one is an attack…
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How Diplomatic Recognition Works in International Relations
Whether an entity counts as a state, and whether a government counts as legitimate, is settled less by clear legal tests than…
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How Legislative Redistricting Shapes Who Holds Power
Where the lines of an electoral map are drawn can matter as much as how people vote. Redistricting turns the same distribution…
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How Modern Election Polling Works and Why It Misses
Polls are read as forecasts and remembered as failures. The truth is more interesting: modern polling is a sophisticated estimation exercise whose…
Politics EXPLAINER
What Judicial Independence Means in Practice
An independent judiciary is named in nearly every constitution and honoured in far fewer. What separates a genuinely independent court from a…
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What Central Bank Independence Means for Democratic Politics
Independent central banks hold extraordinary power over economies while sitting outside the elected chain of command. The arrangement is one of the…
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How Economic Sanctions Work as an Instrument of Statecraft
Sanctions have become the default tool of coercive diplomacy — a middle option between a statement and a war. Understanding how they…
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How Coalition Governments Form When No Party Wins a Majority
When an election produces no single majority, government is built through negotiation rather than delivered by the ballot box. The bargaining that…