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Graham Platner will kick off starts his first general election at one of the lowest points of his upstart Senate campaign. There has been nonstop...
Democrats avoided the worst outcome in the California governor’s race. While it will take several more days for the state’s mail-in ballots to be...
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss lost her initial battle against the staff of 60 Minutes. That was back in December, when she blocked the airing of...
Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the exact kind of Democrat I usually criticize. She’s been in Congress for more than 20 years,...
On Tuesday, federal judges blocked an attempt by Alabama Republicans to eliminate a heavily Black congressional district, and GOP politicians in South...
Donald Trump has convinced Republican voters to exile seven conservative politicians from the Republican Party in the last two weeks. Not moderates....
Republican state legislators, governors, state supreme court justices, and U.S. Supreme Court justices have combined over the last week to effectively...
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, and a long list of other powerful figures in the party spent last winter and...
A year ago, Senator Jon Ossoff seemed like he might be a one-hit wonder—elected in that short period from November 2020 to January 2021 when Georgia...
Maine Governor Janet Mills’s decision to suspend her U.S. Senate campaign and effectively concede to upstart Graham Platner is a huge temporary...
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis this week is pushing his state’s GOP-dominated legislature to adopt a gerrymandering scheme that could...
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin raises objections to almost everything Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposes, from his budget to his plans to create...
Yes, Virginia! The passage of a ballot initiative that allows Virginia Democrats to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts will make it...
Pope Leo XIV may be the most prominent and respected figure abroad who is increasingly critical of President Trump. But he’s far from alone....
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance treated Hungary’s election like it was a U.S. Senate race in the United States. Vance flew to Budapest...
Hours before the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, The New York Times published a story titled, “How Trump...
This time last year, Senator Bernie Sanders was giving speeches in front of thousands of people, decrying what he correctly describes as an...
President Trump wanted his Department of Justice to prosecute and put in jail former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia...
The Democrats are in danger of giving away one of the most important perches in American politics, particularly with a radical Republican like Donald...
The United States is in a period with a “persistence of diminished democracy,” according to a report that will be released on Tuesday. It’s the...
The primaries in deep-blue Illinois on Tuesday were a test of who has power and influence in the Democratic Party. In three primaries for open U.S....
The state of Washington is on the verge of enacting a 9.9 percent tax on income over $1 million. Rhode Island’s governor has proposed a 3 percent...
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We’re 13 days into the U.S.-Israel war against Iran—and it seems as ill-conceived and wrong as when it started. Oil prices keep going up....
The center-left group Third Way held a conference last week where moderate Democratic strategists and politicians blasted progressive ideas and the...
Do Democrats have a real chance of winning a Senate seat in Texas this year? Probably not. But Tuesday night’s election results were the best...
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has spent months pleading with Democrats in Maryland’s state Senate to adopt a redistricting plan that would likely...
Oklahoma’s governor just signed an executive order barring most of the state’s public colleges from offering tenure to professors. School...
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sure looked like a presidential candidate this weekend. She attended a policy conference in Munich that often...
Early last year, polls and media commentary suggested that crime would be the defining issue of the New York City mayoral race. Then, Zohran...