U.S. President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party suffered a major defeat at the polls Nov. 2, losing control of the lower house of Congress and shedding seats to Republicans in the Senate. Republicans picked up at least 60 seats in the House of Representatives, with several races still too close to call. Ohio Republican John Boehner [...]

    The second round of Senate elections ended in triumph for the opposition Social Democrats (ČSSD). For full analysis on the implications of the victory on the governing coalition check out the Oct. 27 print edition of the Prague Post, but here is a summary of how things broke down… ČSSD won 12 of [...]

    Get a full round up and analysis of the local and Senate election results in the Oct. 20 print edition of the Prague Post, but here are some early Sunday morning results.  The Civic Democrats (ODS) have lost control of city councils in all of the Czech Republic’s major cities with the exception [...]

An attempt to end the United States’  “don’t ask don’t tell” policy on gays serving  in the military died in the Senate Sept. 21. The policy dates from 1993, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. At the time, it replaced the  previous policy of the Reagan administration which said that “homosexuality is incompatible with military [...]