Just before the 2022 midterm elections, The New York Times’s data guru Nate Cohn flagged that many poll averages had become heavily influenced by “a wave of polls by firms like the Trafalgar Group, ...

The Department of Justice has launched a risible suit over the state’s U.S. Senate ballot because two candidates have similar names.

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The Justice Department's efforts to scotch the state's U.S. Senate ballot is laughable and the press shouldn't fall for it.

The Department of Justice has launched a risible suit over the state’s U.S. Senate ballot because two candidates have similar names.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a roundtable event with President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. Credit: Associated Press Secretary of War Pete ...

I went to judge a debate tournament and came away less worried about the teenagers than the politicians and pundits who argue just like them.

The GOP is putting up a bumper crop of subpar candidates this midterms cycle. Here’s our countdown of the five worst.

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Here’s a grim reality that few would have predicted in the 1990s: Neo-Nazi rhetoric and ideology have found a place in American political discourse. You don’t have to believe America is fascist to ...

From scandal-plagued incumbents to conspiracy theorists and extremists, meet 10 midterm candidates who could make it to Washington.