Politics Features

Immigration and economics loom large on the campaign trail and in the minds of voters, but America’s foreign entanglements could well decide the election. The Democratic Party is desperately trying to keep debate about the conduct of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon contained to an intramural row over policy, …

In July, María Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, began noticing something urgent about older and undecided Hispanic voters in her group’s internal polling, and also in the data from focus groups they had conducted in a handful of swing states since January. Kumar and her colleagues at Voto Latino …

During the final full month of Donald Trump’s first and potentially only term in the White House — as the coronavirus pandemic still raged and as the outgoing president worked to overturn an election that he clearly lost — he was also hosting a series of meetings and phone calls …

Minnesota superfan Aidan Jahane Gallivan was on the hunt. Her favorite artist Chappell Roan, a pop star on the precipice of superstardom, released a special edition vinyl of her 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. Gallivan couldn’t wait to get her hands on the collector’s item. …

Donald Trump-backing Christian supremacists gathered en masse on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Yom Kippur on Oct. 12, to fast, atone, and receive messages about a holy revolution, national deliverance from LGBTQ “demons,” and “spiritual warfare” matched to a physical “ground game.” As one preacher put it: “You …

Undecided Latino voters who participated in Donald Trump’s Univision town hall on Wednesday were left deeply unimpressed by the former president. Three participants in the event expressed their frustration over Trump’s failure to answer them directly or explain his policy proposals in interviews with Rolling Stone. Two of them indicated …

Donald Trump has largely outsourced his 2024 campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation to a Super PAC bankrolled and directed by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man — and one of its most awkward. In recent weeks, several Republican operatives and other figures in the national party have bluntly and directly informed Trump …

With just weeks left in the 2024 presidential contest, Donald Trump already has plans in place to aggressively challenge the election results if he fails to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. According to four conservative attorneys and other sources who’ve spoken to the former president on this matter, Trump intends …

This summer, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill unveiled a series of sample posters that teachers could put up in order to fulfill the state’s new requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all classrooms — calling the posters “plainly constitutional.” Her office has asked a federal judge to throw …

The Republican Party, conservative politicians, and right-wing groups allied with Donald Trump are using exceedingly rare instances of voting by undocumented immigrants as pretext to try to purge more than one million voters from the rolls in battleground states, just weeks before the election — in open defiance of federal …