With animosity between party supporters already at an all-time high, buckle up for what promises to be one of the most contentious elections in modern U.S. history. It’s becoming increasingly possible that the nation will have a choice between two extremes in November. On top of that, some of the candidates’ most ardent supporters continue to tear at the country’s remaining shreds of political civility.

Privacy hawks say health records policy lacks patient protections.

Leaked design plans reveal that the company is thinking about putting bright red and orange labels on false tweets by politicians and public figures.

The effort is launching ahead of California’s March 3 primary and is one of the most unorthodox yet, blurring the lines between traditional campaign organizing and the distribution of sponsored content.

Like the vast majority of Americans, I have been effectively disenfranchised in the last few presidential elections. In 2011, I moved to Washington, D.C., which is so heavily Democratic that any vote for president is totally meaningless — in 2016, Hillary Clinton won with 93 percent of the vote. But last year, I moved to famously swingy Pennsylvania, and suddenly I'm a full citizen again. (I'm already lording it over my friends from California and New York.)

Laws requiring clergy to report child abuse to authorities — even if it's heard in the confession box — will come into effect on Monday, ending the "special treatment" for Victoria's religious institutions. The seal has now been lifted for the suspected sexual abuse of children, with spiritual and religious leaders required to report the abuse or face up to three years in prison.

The long read: In 2013, the far-right politician Marian Kotleba won a shock victory in regional elections. Four years later, he was voted out in a landslide. But now he’s running for president

We're slipping further into fascism as Trump indulges all his worst instincts, with the help of his toadies

An influential evangelical Christian magazine has published an article claiming Democratic frontrunner Pete Buttigieg is “deserving of death” because he is openly gay. In an article published by Charisma News, a website associated with the magazine Charisma, which was founded in1975, writer Bert Farias denounced the way people were celebrating the fact Mr Buttigieg was the first openly gay person seeking the presidential nomination for a major party.

MPs overwhelmingly back Katerina Sakellaropoulou’s appointment with PM hailing it as ‘a window to the future’

Amazon.com Inc. has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to allow it to question President Donald Trump in its lawsuit challenging the loss of a highly lucrative cloud contract. In a court filing made public on Monday, Amazon asks to question Trump and top Pentagon leaders about their role in the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud contract that was awarded to Microsoft Corp. in October.

The country is being run by an unfettered class of superpredators. It's time we started treating them that way.

Critics who believe the law will end up censoring free speech had forced a referendum on the issue.

This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Sunrise Movement, the youth campaign behind the Green New Deal, called 25,000 Iowans and persuaded 7,000 to sign pledges to vote for the candidate who advocated the most ambitious plan for rapidly lowering planet-heating emissions along with guaranteeing federal jobs to displaced workers.

ElectionGuard isn't designed to make voting machines safe from hackers. It's meant to make hacking them pointless.

We are about to go from having rules that overreached to having few rules. The US, China and the EU will be able to act with impunity.

The crowd was protesting Facebook's refusal to remove political advertisements that share disinformation ahead of the 2020 election.

President Donald Trump took a President's Day swipe at his predecessor, Barack Obama, as each sought credit Monday for the U.S. economy. Mocking an earlier Obama tweet as a "con job," Trump blasted Obama for "now trying to take credit for the economic boom taking place under the Trump administration."

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election

Opinion: It was incompetence, not politics, that led to the Iowa caucus app misfiring. Above all, it was poor programming. Open-source software techniques could have prevented this blunder.