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A coalition of African Americans and economically abused Southern whites has been an elusive dream ever since Reconstruction.

With much congressional business still unfinished, the repudiation of Trump could lead some Republicans to vote with ...

It was a stunning, almost fantastical journey-come-true for the former state Senate president and logger, the fifth ...

Since the election, corporations have been trying to avoid regulatory crackdowns by claiming they will change their ways.

They easily swept every statewide race in Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina—and even won the Senate race in South Carolina ...

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The experts have been saying from day one that this race was comfortably red. Nobody has ever said that this race was a blue race. For [Louisiana Sen.] John Kennedy to say that the experts will be ...

Incumbent officials who commit this kind of catastrophic bungling have two options. They can square their shoulders, admit fault, and accept responsibility for their actions. Or they can squirm ...

And he wasn’t alone. Gina Hinojosa took the governor’s race, defeating three-term incumbent Greg Abbott in an absolutely wild ...

After the final blows came down on Jim Crow in the 1950s and ’60s, it still took decades before African Americans were elected to Congress. Former Rep. Mike Espy was elected in 1987, followed in 1993 ...

Overall, voters illustrated that backlash against data centers and artificial intelligence “is easily the bipartisan issue of our lifetime,” said Shaunna Thomas, executive director of Guardrails ...