How Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress
She’s often forgotten among the suffragettes, but her story is just as important
Elections
Tuesday
Monday
Bolivia votes for ‘capitalism for all’
Left-wing rule has left the country’s economy in chaos
Tuesday
Can Clarksdale find its mojo again?
Bubba’s campaign had been a message of Christianity combined with doomsday prophecy
Monday
Hogg out: youngest DNC vice chair ousted
A 61-year-old woman filed a complaint saying his election was ‘fatally flawed’
The GOP ballot harvesting bonanza has begun
Turning Point Action estimates that the total cost of its operation will be $108.6 million
Thursday
The mental health election spiral
Why are so many people losing their minds over election outcomes?
Monday
‘Democracy’ in New York State
Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
Monday
Is the fate of democracy truly at stake?
The deepest threat to democracy in our time comes from progressives who reject localized self-government itself
Thursday
Why you shouldn’t bet on elections
Everyone always laments that politics is a tough old game, but no one ever thinks of the journalists
Tuesday
Will Covid voting rules stay in place in 2024?
As campaigns hit their stride, state voting regulations loom large, particularly in the battleground states
Inside the 2024 campaign consultant calamity
The primary season is just getting started but the consultant backbiting has already begun
Wednesday
Zucked up: private election funding’s new form
The grant money from the Center for Tech and Civic Life wasn’t just free money for election centers to use at their own discretion
Wednesday
The Youngkin blueprint
Can Virginia be a model for Republicans nationwide?
Thursday
Francis Suarez’s Messi debate stage ploy
His use of Venmo has raised concerns about untraceable foreign donations
Sunday
How will the decline of cable news affect politics?
2024 is already shaping up to feel very different from previous, TV-news-dominated campaigns
Wednesday
The inevitable return of Bibi Netanyahu
Israeli elections appear set to return him to power in a stunning comeback
Monday
Life after liberalism
As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
Thursday
Chesa Boudin’s soft-on-crime policies will doom him
Californians may be about to recall a progressive prosecutor
Sunday
How conservatives concede the culture
They live in an eternal present that must be defended against a dreadful future
Thursday
Welcome to body-camera democracy
Body cams on poll workers would do much to cool mounting tensions and put a stop to dangerous political theater
