Every 10 years, a U.S. election bestows a predictable long-term advantage to one of the two major parties. The 2010 election handed that edge to the Republicans, and they didn’t waste the opportunity for gerrymandering — manipulating the boundaries of an electoral district in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage. Even though […]

“Ted Cruz says he doesn’t want to join the Supreme Court after being shortlisted by Trump” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps […]

THE CITY will be meeting in the weeks ahead with the growing crop of 2021 City Hall hopefuls. Tell us what’s on your mind and what you want to know. Your responses will help us come up with some challenging questions. The most important election in a generation for New York City is coming up […]

Editor’s note: Journalist Bob Woodward reports in his new book, “Rage,” that the NSA and CIA have classified evidence that the Russian intelligence services placed malware in the election registration systems of at least two Florida counties in 2016, and that the malware was sophisticated and could erase voters. This appears to confirm earlier reports. Meanwhile, Russian intelligence […]

Brushing aside a growing chorus of doubt and discontent with the leadership of Tennessee’s education commissioner, Gov. Bill Lee maintained his support Thursday of Penny Schwinn. In an hourlong press conference that was meant to highlight the work of a statewide team on policing reforms, Lee was twice asked to address the no-confidence in Schwinn […]

To continue the battle against fallout from COVID-19, Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday launched a $32.7 million grant program that seeks to create innovations that help the state’s most disadvantaged students. In an interview with Chalkbeat, Polis said he hopes the Response, Innovation, and Student Equity Education Fund, known as RISE, will plant ideas that […]

At this point in the 1976 U.S. presidential race, Jimmy Carter had an 11-point lead on Gerald Ford, down from his 33-point lead in July. His lead would further narrow such that the election was a cliffhanger. Carter won by the narrow margin of 2 percentage points. Although the vote swing in the Carter-Ford race […]

The Republican Party made it clear in its national convention that it intends to make restoring “law and order” central to this fall’s presidential campaign. As he did when he first ran in 2016, President Donald Trump highlighted law and order in his 2020 acceptance speech. “Your vote,” Trump said, “will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans and whether … we will […]

Editor’s note: We asked several Mississippi politicos, two months from Election Day, to share their thoughts on the 2020 U.S. Senate race between Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy. Click here to read to the list of expert opinions. Stuart Stevens, a Jackson native, is a best-selling author and longtime Republican political consultant who has […]

THE MUCK Among the many lines of attack lobbed by Democrats against the Republican candidate for governor, U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, is a claim that the congressman has shirked his duties representing Montanans in Washington, D.C. — specifically that he has “missed more votes than 93% of Congress.” That statistic anchors a website set up by […]