It doesn’t have to be that way: Consider Minneapolis. Tens of thousands of ordinary Americans risked freezing temperatures, pepper spray, stun guns and worse to stand up for their neighbors.

Following Mesa and Scottsdale, Tempe voters are caught up in a growing trend of ideological partisanship in local nonpartisan ...

Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or ...