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Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring the US Midterms & Family/Parenting issues, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. How has our political system been working for and against us? What dynamics are different today? How should we prepare for midterm elections vs presidential ones, and local […]

As the Israeli elections near, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working with an extreme right-wing party as his two centrist political opponents, former army chief of staff, Benny Gantz, and Yair Lapid merge their campaigns on a joint ticket.

Nayib Bukele, whose parents migrated from Palestine, won the 2019 presidential elections in El Salvador for the conservative Great National Alliance (GANA) party.

Israel has arrested 5 Israeli Yeshiva high school students for the fatal stoning of Aisha Rabi, a 48-year old Palestinian woman in the West Bank last year. The fatal attacks on Palestinian civillians by Israeli settlers have increased ahead of the national elections in April.

According to Vox, less than a week after Stacey Abrams announced that she was ceasing her campaign against Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia, a lawsuit is being brought against the Georgia elections board and the interim Secretary of State Robyn Crittendon by Fair Fight Action and Care in Action, two groups that fight on […]

According to 11alive.com, a Georgia NBC affiliate station, Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District Court of Georgia ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by voting rights advocacy group Common Cause Georgia to delay certification of the Georgia governor race. The lawsuit accused GOP nominee Brian Kemp, who refused to resign as Georgia’s Secretary […]

Following his loss to Democratic candidate Natalia Oakes, Harris County Family Judge Glenn Devlin immediately began releasing all of the juvenile offenders who had pending cases, according to the Texas Tribune. Devlin simply asked all of the defendants whether or not they planned to kill anybody, then released them from detention.

Around 4 p.m. on Sunday, a person with a gun shot four bullets into the Volusia County Republican Party office in South Daytona, Florida. No was killed or injured, but many feel this is yet another example of the uniquely heated political climate ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

The Democratic party is moving closer to embracing a radical policy change to the existing medical system in America, moving closer to a model already in practice in much of the developed world. As the mid-term elections creep ever closer, the Democrats, led by Bernie Sanders, are increasingly calling for “Medicare for All” as a […]

North Carolina’s elections board recently voted unanimously to allow the state Attorney General to fight subpoenas of voting records issued by ICE and the Trump administration.

Rahm Emmanuel is not running for mayor of Chicago for the first time in over a decade. Emmanuel cites wanting to go down a different path as the reason for his abrupt exit, but the reality may be more complicated than that. Political insiders note that Emmanuel would be facing a tremendous challenge this election […]

Demonstrators in support of Zimbabwe’s opposition party took the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, following the country’s recent national elections, which saw the ZANU-PF party maintain its grip on the country. Protesters called the election a sham, and witnesses say that they saw soldiers assault several of these protestors with makeshift batons, tear gas […]