A voter casts their ballot at a polling station at Chesterbrook Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, on Nov. 4, 2025.Graeme Sloan—Bloomberg via Getty Images The last decade taught us painful lessons ...

American politics feels less like a democracy and more like a never-ending custody battle. Voters get stuck in the middle while two massive parties argue over who gets to “own” them. The Republican ...

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The biggest lesson of this month’s sweeping Democratic election victories is that President Donald Trump is continuing to cast an outsize shadow over every other election during his presidential term.

Tech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang was a lifelong Democrat. But after losing New York City’s 2021 mayoral primary election, he left the party and founded his own ...

Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026. By Enjoli Liston Eight senators in the Democratic caucus broke with the party late Sunday to vote with Republicans and ...

A majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans agree that "extremist political rhetoric" contributed to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to a new poll. The ...

Several Democrats broke ranks with their party to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history in a move that has triggered backlash from rising progressive stars, including Rep. Alexandria ...

In Michigan, Maine and many other states, primary candidates will decide the party’s direction on a host of policy issues, and ultimately whether it has a center-left or left-wing vision. The Senate ...

A Sunday night Senate deal may be on the verge of resolving the longest government shutdown on record — after a group of moderate Democrats dropped their key demand — a guaranteed extension of ...

The United States is transforming from a two-party political system into one comprising establishment Republicans, establishment Democrats, alt-right populists, and democratic socialists. In ...