Clerks must wait until the morning of Election Day to begin processing ballots and counting votes, even if they were received weeks earlier. Two strategies are being considered to change ...
A single vote can be momentous, even in states where one party dominates. In North Carolina, a legislator who unexpectedly switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican enabled GOP ...
In the 1850s, as disunion loomed and tempers frayed, so many members of Congress carried weapons into the legislature that a senator said, “The only persons who don’t have a ...
When the sun falls from the darkening Washington, DC, sky, the electric crowd at Howard University appears certain it will ...
It’s going to get tougher and tougher for Democrats to win the Electoral College and the White House if present trends hold, ...
President-elect Trump wants congressional Republicans to figure out a way to avoid a default on the national debt after ...
Michael McConnell, a Stanford law professor on Meta’s oversight board, told NPR’s All Things Considered Friday that his ...
Many conservative states also are pushing to bring Christianity into public K-12 education through moves such as requiring ...
As state legislatures convene, they face the same political polarization seen in Congress. Some are in near-deadlock.
The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per ...