Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Hours before the results started coming in on November 5, when Democrats were still ...

Norden is vice president of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. Weiner is director of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for ...

President Donald Trump is, in my view, such a narcissistic, self-serving con artist that he and his cadre of bootlickers are easy targets for Democrats to blame for much of what is wrong in the ...

For a swath of the left cynical about the American political system, “libbing out” means indulging in hope. By Joseph Bernstein Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, is a democratic ...

We are weeks away from the U.S. presidential election—and every other lawn in my Berkeley neighborhood has been taken over by political yard signs for school board positions, our hotly contested ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris moaned Thursday in an interview with soon-to-be-axed lefty talk show host Stephen Colbert that the American political system is “broken” and suggested she wouldn’t ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Vice President Kamala Harris has returned to public life with a stark assessment of American ...

Attacks, such as an assassination in Minnesota, are on the rise. Their motives are often hard to parse. By Shaila Dewan Minnesotans awoke on a recent Saturday to reports that an assassin had spent the ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best way ...

The growing rift between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump turned into a gulf on July 5 when Musk announced the independent America Party, supposedly focused on Bitcoin and centrist ...