Though Xavier Becerra’s victory in the governor’s race in California, a comprehensive win that in a normal election year would have merited national headlines, barely registered among commentators, so ...

es Moines, Iowa —“All along I’ve said Iowa was the center of the political universe,” Josh Turek, the Hawkeye State’s newly elected Democratic senator, told a giddy election-night crowd on Tuesday.

On Tuesday night, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed became the first Muslim ever elected to the United States Senate—delivering the most direct and profound of the many rebukes that Republican ...

Ad Policy Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks onstage after declaring victory in Michigan’s US Senate race during an election night party in Detroit, early on November 4, 2026. (Jeff ...

An epic defeat turns the president into a lame duck—and hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the MAGA era.

A non-question.

New York State’s governor and New York City’s mayor are illustrating how ideologically diverse Democrats can build winning coalitions.

The former vice president reminds The Nation that, even if government is divided in DC, “a governor, as the chief executive of a state, can actually make things happen.” ...

The Most Valuable Player of the finals was Gabby Williams, who, after a tepid two-point first half, scored an astounding 28 second-half points and played her brand of stellar defense all the way ...

Flanagan opponent Michelle Tafoya’s extreme and erratic stands on Operation Metro Surge may well cost her the Senate seat.

Centrist, pro-Israel Democrats helped Stevens undermine Abdul El-Sayed for months. Now they are reaping the consequences.

In their new book, economists Arjun Jayadev and J.W. Mason examine the peculiar role money plays in shaping human life.