The five-term Senate incumbent is leaning on her Appropriations Committee chairmanship to justify a sixth term. Here’s an instructive example of why the coveted gavel may not save Collins.

Susan Collins, the five-term incumbent, is leaning on her Appropriations Committee chairmanship to justify a sixth term. It ...

And for the 7,386 elected state legislators, a 2024 study by Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics put their average age in the mid-50s—with more state legislators older than 80 than under 30. Far ...

Americans often divide life into two settings: home and work. But life frequently involves the third-place informal gathering spots such as diners and coffee shops, bowling alleys and barbershops, ...

The agrarian movement offers a model for the age of AI, empowering local communities to make the important decisions affecting their lives.

He can try to use a controversial permitting reform bill that way—but energy market conditions will dictate the pace of fossil fuel development.

Voting booths aren’t the only place where the Trump administration is working to ensure that some people in America don’t count. Last month, the administration proposed a dramatic overhaul to the U.S.

Democratic leaders are spending millions to elect progressive candidates in the midterms, setting aside old battles.

Candidate quality” continues to be a problem for the GOP this cycle, as Monthly Editor Nate Weisberg discovered while compiling his list of the 10 worst candidates running this November. This episode ...

When Trump cut a diesel deal with Putin and limited intelligenced sharing, a canny Zelensky didn't beg or cower.

Kansas and South Carolina have PVIs of R+8. Montana and Nebraska have R+10. Mississippi is R+11 and South Dakota is R+15. All steep climbs, but not unprecedented climbs, and arguably all cases with ...

Political scientist Seth Masket’s new book explains how GOP establishment history and mechanics made Donald Trump’s ascent inevitable.