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1951 episodes transcribedAs Democrats plan for a presidential campaign season without Iowa at the top of the calendar, we look at the impact the decision could have on the sta...
The Democratic National Committee is meeting this week in Washington to decide whether Iowa should still have the first caucus in the party's presiden...
All eyes are on Georgia's Senate runoff election as Democrat Raphael Warnock fights for his first full term. He's up against Republican Herschel Walke...
Railroad unions rejected a Biden-brokered deal to prevent a national strike over concerns that it did not include paid sick leave. Now, the president...
GOP candidates there embraced "bipartisan" messaging and capitalized on redrawn maps to flip four House seats from Democratic control in New York. Dem...
In Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates managed to turnout their rural supporters while many rural Republicans stayed home. And long-term under-investm...
The 2022 election season is winding to a close. What can Democrats and Republicans learn from their candidates' successes and failures in this midterm...
It's a holiday tradition unlike any other — the annual pardoning of Thanksgiving turkeys. But not everybody is a fan of giving the birds clemency, esp...
Our colleagues at Planet Money had a simple question: how do pollsters do their work ahead of elections? They went to Marist College — home of the Mar...
When the new Congress takes office in January, Democrats will lose control of the House of Representatives. Until that happens, they have a slew of le...
Election observers were concerned misinformation would have an outsized impact on the 2022 elections, as it did in 2020. But, that ended up not being...
Attorney General Merrick Garland has named Jack Smith, the Justice Department's former public integrity chief, to oversee the investigations into the...
Pelosi, 82, is honoring a pledge she made in 2018 to pass the baton after another two terms at the party's helm. She says she will remain in Congress...
Former president Donald Trump, 76, has now filed to run for president again in 2024. President Biden, 79, also appears likely to run for reelection. I...
The California Republican got his start in national politics as a self-styled "young gun" whose inveterate politicking has allowed him to outshine his...
Tensions appear lower between the U.S. and China following a meeting between the leaders of the two nations. Both described the talks as frank and pro...
Republican nominee Blake Masters lags incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona, as we wait for that race to be called. GOP election officials the...
Michigan's Jocelyn Benson and Minnesota's Steve Simon beat election deniers to oversee voting systems in their states. A key race in Arizona remains u...
Democrats outperformed expectations last night. Despite Biden's unpopularity and big economic headwinds, abortion politics and the unpopularity of Tru...
The balance of power will take time to sort out, but here are some firsts you can talk about around the water cooler Wednesday: Vermont becomes the fi...
