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The blame for Nixon’s defeat lies almost solely with national Democrats and their stubborn refusal to back Nixon with either ...

Intriguingly, it is not merely that the wealthiest are causing global warming — they are also engaged in behaviors that are hurting the world’s poor more than climate change is. Particularly regarding ...

And on Long Island, in a district Donald Trump carried, a gay Democrat named Chris Gallant, whose private photographs were leaked against him precisely because someone believed that seeing him would ...

Waititi’s childish outburst is straight from the MAGA playbook. And while refuting film critics isn’t akin to Donald Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump fumed at Fox News on Election Day, accusing the conservative network of turning against him, giving Democrats too much airtime and driving away its own viewers. “FoxNews Ratings ...

Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, ...

Analysts assured us that while it looked likely the party would gain at least a House majority, the so-called real victory ...

The country that right-wing media had spent two years describing as angry, ascendant and permanently realigned voted in an ...

Among the six soon-to-be retirees, two are Democrats. The seats of Reps. Lloyd Doggett and Marc Veasey will be filled, respectively, by Rep. Greg Casar, who ran for Doggett’s Austin seat after his own ...

This marks the first time a Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas since 1994, and another such result, perhaps even more ...

Each election is billed as being consequential; this one lives up to the hype. As we await the results, it’s worth taking ...