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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Move over, Haley Stevens: There’s a new competitor for the most pathetic reaction to plummeting political fortunes. Elon Musk ...

The blue landslide, long predicted by pundits but mentioned with fingers crossed by Democrats, was becoming an avalanche. Further south in Georgia, an earlier-than-expected call for Jon Ossoff buoyed ...

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