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Pink. An ovular rose. Big and smooth. A complex commonplace instrument. And, as far as these things go, a rather nice one. Isolated from the head and all that roils [...]

The term 'October surprise' was coined by then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan's campaign manager in 1980. Since then, depending on who's got the goods up their sleeve, the last-minute reveal is [...]

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ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE at the courthouse!' Jason Miller told me. A former aide to Rudy Giuliani, Miller was a Republican operative well known in New York and Washington, D.C., [...]

Bernie Sanders has made plenty of history as a democratic socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, an independent U.S. Representative, and then a U.S. Senator. He was a contender for the [...]

Although the 2024 election season won't shift into high gear until after Labor Day, booksellers across the country are making plans for what Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics & Prose [...]

Depends on what you mean by 'better.' And depends on what you're using it for. We dug into the latest science on how your neurocognitive functions change as you get [...]

Who was Charles Lindbergh? Charles Lindbergh became famous in 1927 when he became the first man to fly across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. Suddenly, out of nowhere [...]

What if you kept holding the same election until everybody was sick of it? The story of 2024 is also the story of 1892. Eight American presidents before Donald Trump [...]

IN SHIRLEY, available March 22 on Netflix, Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm--the first Black congresswoman and the first Black woman to run for president. King's first role since 2021's [...]

The Conservative Party accepted a donation from climate science denier Laurence Fox’s media outlet less than two weeks before the general election, DeSmog can reveal. The (https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Donations/C0583682) 5,000 donation was [...]

American presidential elections last years -- and that's not including the endless 'shadow campaign.' The cycle wasn't always so long. Experts said the new timeline doesn't guarantee better candidates. Harris' [...]

Byline: Laura Bassett From the moment he first ran for president in 2016, (https://www.thecut.com/tags/donald-trump/) Donald Trump has centered his entire political career around masculinity. He's boasted about the size of [...]

Stop us if you've heard this before: The federal government could shut down sometime in the next few weeks if Congress can't agree to a new spending bill. It is [...]

The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without [...]

Byline: Tariro Mzezewa When Kamala Harris ran for president in 2020, her experience as a prosecutor appeared to hurt her with Democratic-primary voters who were moving to the left on [...]

FLORIDA:Dem Says What's Up on WhatsApp Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D) launched a campaign on WhatsApp 'to reach voters and attack a sea of disinformation' as she looks to win [...]

Prominent Republicans have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. Liz Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, announced their support for Harris. Republican speakers at the DNC [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff164d6e-9b78-4d4b-b162-a0daeebdbf73_735x550.jpeg) Finally, 56 days before November 5, America has reached the xenophobic “OMG dark-skinned immigrants are killing and eating all our pets!” stage of the presidential election. As we do. [...]

“Oftentimes, when I can have a conversation with an independent or a Republican, they’ll look at me and they’ll go, ‘You don’t sound like a Democrat.’ And that’s because [I] [...]

Byline: Benjamin Hart James Carville is one of the few instantly recognizable political strategists. Carville, who turns 80 in October, has spent decades running campaigns (most famously Bill Clinton's in [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore Back in 1980, former West Virginia Governor Arch Moore was running a hopeless campaign against his successor Jay Rockefeller, whose immense family wealth extinguished any real hope [...]

The race for the White House is down to its last two months, meaning the election campaigns for both Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris [...]

Despite her past criticisms of GOP rival Donald Trump, including that he was “dangerous” for the country, former presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said in an upcoming interview with “Face the [...]

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE:Thune Marches to His Own Tune Minority Whip John Thune'a leading candidate in the GOP leadership race''has raised nearly $22 million this cycle after spending the August [...]

Seth Meyers was a bit on edge on Wednesday night, as he realized just how close the 2024 presidential election really is at this point. Particularly because, as the NBC [...]

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE:Cornyn Fundraises for Senate Candidates and Trump Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), eyeing Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's spot as GOP leader in November, has raised money for 2022 [...]

DEMOCRATS:Harris Pushes Trump to Have Hot Mics at Debate Vice President Kamala Harris publicly urged former President Trump to allow for unmuted mics at next week's debate on ABC News. [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore Back in the day, presidential general elections began in earnest after Labor Day, when kids were back in school, summer vacations were a fleeting memory, and voters [...]

Geraldine Ferraro badge owned by Sally Ride, 1984 (HERITAGE IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES) The history of female politicians running for — and being elected to — the highest positions in our country [...]

The family who invited Donald Trump to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday was “happy to welcome him,” mother-in-law of a dead soldier Christy Shamblin told CNN on Saturday. Shamblin added [...]

There's been a 'profound change' in the US election race since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate, Keir Starmer said this week – the latest chapter in the pair's transatlantic [...]

Byline: Justin Curto Donald Trump's song of the summer? At this point, it's probably total silence after a number of musicians denied his campaign the use of their music in [...]