President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security claimed on Thursday that they had uncovered a significant number of noncitizens registered in four states, but offered no evidence to support their findings nor any description of their investigative process. Election officials in at least one state — Nevada — immediately rebuffed the claims regarding noncitizens…
Graham Platner withdrew from the Maine Senate race on Friday, ending his tumultuous political saga and allowing Democrats to begin the process of selecting an alternate nominee. “I write to formally withdraw my candidacy for United States Senate,” Mr. Platner wrote in a letter to the Maine secretary of state. “Please consider this notice as…
But what America’s forces of progress have long understood is that America’s ideals are a trap that can be sprung on those who betray them, and Trump has betrayed them. What Democrats have not known, at least since Obama, is how to spring that trap. Trump’s dominance of the post-Obama landscape has led many Democrats…
In May, Republican voters in Louisiana delivered President Trump one of his most resounding victories of the primary season, ousting Senator Bill Cassidy at his urging. Now, they are again weighing whether to elevate his preferred candidate as they head to the polls on Saturday for a runoff election that is expected to determine Mr….
In its quest to outlaw abortion across the country, the antiabortion movement has been largely unified around a core idea: Women who get the procedure should be spared punishment, while doctors and others who make it available should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But a growing number of conservative leaders are…
Showing up early and often is a core tenet of public health crisis communications, yet it can be difficult to execute during the panic of a crisis. For reasons having to do with politics or personality, leaders often seem evasive when they most need to be visible. Subsequently, real or perceived lack of transparency undermines…
The biggest city in the country is led by a democratic socialist, and another is in the running to lead the second biggest. Seattle has a socialist mayor. And in 2027, a democratic socialist will almost certainly be taking the reins of the nation’s capital. With her convincing victory in the Democratic primary in Washington…
President Trump’s fragile agreement with Iran has introduced a new variable into this year’s midterm elections. Democratic candidates have assailed the agreement, arguing that the president accepted unfavorable terms to try to end an unnecessary war that hurt the economy. Republicans have been more divided. Some, eager to turn the page on the unpopular war,…
State Auditor Matt Dunlap, a progressive Democrat, won the Democratic primary in northern Maine’s battleground House district early Friday, according to state election officials. The race call came 10 days after voters went to the polls. Election officials tabulated second-choice votes under the state’s ranked-choice system after no candidate won more than 50 percent of…
At an internal OpenAI policy meeting last month, employees pressed executives on donations that one of the company’s founders had made to Leading the Future, a super PAC that favors lighter regulation of artificial intelligence and has become a powerful force in the midterm elections. Top policy executives tried to distance OpenAI from the activities…
