Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) speaks with Iowa state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, who is running for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, at the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry…
Read more Van Hollen, Democrats in Iowa call for end to political violence after Kirk’s killingU.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, spoke to state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, who is running for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District in 2026 at the Polk…
Read more U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrats call for end to political violence after Charlie Kirk’s deathOn Election Day in 2006, Justice Antonin Scalia was 70 years old and had been serving on the Supreme Court for 20 years. That year would have been…
Read more Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire NowSign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. In late 2021, Tom Suozzi made an announcement that exasperated Democratic Party leaders: The third-term representative…
Read more The Special Election That Could Give Democrats Hope for NovemberIt’s a year before the presidential election, and Democrats are panicking. Their incumbent is unpopular, and voters are refusing to give him credit for overseeing an economic rebound.…
Read more Is Biden Toast?Every so often, someone asks me who my favorite politicians to write about over the years have been. I always place Bill Richardson, the longtime congressman and former…
Read more A Politician Who Loved Being CourtedThe escalating political struggle over abortion is compounding the GOP’s challenges in the nation’s largest and most economically vibrant metropolitan areas. The biggest counties in Ohio voted last…
Read more Abortion Is Inflaming the GOP’s Biggest Electoral ProblemLast month, during a meeting of Democrats in rural southwestern Iowa, a man raised his hand. “What are three noncontroversial issues that Democrats should be talking about right…
Read more Abortion Could Matter Even More in 2024Let’s say you’re a politician in a close race and your opponent suffers a stroke. What do you do? If you are Mehmet Oz running as a Republican…
Read more Republicans Need to Stop Being JerksThe Republican Party swaggered into Tuesday’s midterm elections with full confidence that it would clobber President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party, capitalizing on voters’ concerns over inflation…
Read more Four Lessons Republicans Must Learn Before 2024The two major factors shaping the 2022 midterm elections collided in tumultuous fashion on Tuesday morning. First came the government report that inflation last month had increased faster…
Read more Why This Election Is So WeirdBy now you’ve surely heard: Reports of the Democrats’ inevitable defeat this November (might) have been exaggerated. The party infamous for its disarray is suddenly passing legislation left…
Read more How the Democrats RalliedIt might be nice one day to wake up and feel serene—even hopeful—about the state of American politics. To know that all of those people who have been…
Read more The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in ArizonaIf Democrats avoid the worst outcome in November’s midterm elections, the principal reason will likely be the GOP’s failure to reverse its decline in white-collar suburbs during the…
Read more Democrats Might Avoid a Midterm Wipeout
