Midterm Elections Blog Posts

Abdul El-Sayed wants to abolish the nation’s Immigration and Customs Agency. The Michigan Senate candidate supports replacing private insurance with a government-run system.

One of the most overlooked American movie classics is the 1990s hit Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray plays a supremely confident and self-involved television weatherman who is forced to relive the...

Most politicians and influencers understand that our brains love comfortability, and any hint of cognitive dissonance in voters’ minds could cost an entire election. So what happens when characters go...

In a society in which most of us demand more alternatives for our decisions, the struggles of both Democrats and Republicans to keep their supporters unified and moving in the same direction have beco...

I am not an expert in military matters, geopolitical affairs, or presidential megalomania. But after the decade that all of us have now had observing Donald Trump, it has become a little easier to see...

"In an angry, frustrated and frightened America, conventional politicians like Cornyn and Mills are decidedly out of style."

Florida’s upcoming gubernatorial race may find itself to be more controversial and consequential than even Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s successful bid for New York City mayor last year.

Redistricting is legally required. Its troubled cousin, gerrymandering, carries no such mandate, yet seems to be a constant in modern partisanship. What do voters need to know, and how can they fight...

By the time you read this column, the United States military might be on its way out of Iran. Or we might be getting in even deeper.

What might bring disengaged and skeptical citizens into the civic process, in their own communities, well before the next contested election?