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America’s 250th birthday was quintessentially Minnesota: hot, humid and punctuated by severe storms. Here’s hoping your holiday was still memorable. Early voting is underway, primary day is about a month away,

A new poll finds most Americans would celebrate July Fourth with political opponents, but many draw the line at romantic relationships.

President Donald Trump’s tumbling approval ratings are raising the odds that the 2026 midterm elections will extend one of the most powerful trends in 21st-century American politics. The president’s steady decline in popularity has increased the ...

The fallout from Louisiana v. Callais has been nothing short of tragic, with terrible echoes of the past. As Reconstruction ended in 1877, states in the South either killed, expelled, or used other means to force out Black legislators. Over the last two ...

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Since 2016, Democrats have increasingly asked voters to rally not around a compelling vision of America’s future, but around fear of what happens if Donald Trump returns. Every election is cast as the final firewall before catastrophe. Democracy is on ...

“I should be securely in the middle class,” Kris Massey, a 57-year-old nurse practitioner who lives near Nashville, told CNN. “I should be fine, and I’m not. I can’t be the only one feeling like this.” As that CNN article shows, a lot of people ...

This Pew Research Center study goes beyond Americans’ partisan attachments and vote choices to explore the values and attitudes that underlie the political landscape and the Republican and Democratic parties. We did this by creating a political typology ...

On the August primary ballot, Kansans are being asked to decide whether to fundamentally change how we choose justices for our state Supreme Court. The proposed shift from merit selection to popular elections may sound like an expansion of democratic ...