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.

Just before the 2022 midterm elections, The New York Times’s data guru Nate Cohn flagged that many poll averages had become heavily influenced by “a wave of polls by firms like the Trafalgar Group, ...

Last week in Paris, a mix of genuine protest, opportunistic violence and government failure from education policy to the police response.

Donald Trump could be even more dangerous as a lame duck--feral, unpredictible, and even more vicious when he's weakened.

The Justice Department's efforts to scotch the state's U.S. Senate ballot is laughable and the press shouldn't fall for it.

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

While Democrats are on track to win the House popular vote by eight points, that partisan tilt alone isn’t enough to carry the Senate.

From scandal-plagued incumbents to conspiracy theorists and extremists, meet 10 midterm candidates who could make it to Washington.

I went to judge a debate tournament and came away less worried about the teenagers than the politicians and pundits who argue just like them.

The GOP is putting up a bumper crop of subpar candidates this midterms cycle. Here’s our countdown of the five worst.

Here’s a grim reality that few would have predicted in the 1990s: Neo-Nazi rhetoric and ideology have found a place in American political discourse. You don’t have to believe America is fascist to ...