Mitch McConnell has held his Kentucky Senate seat since 1985. This fall, for the first time in four decades, his name will not be on the ballot. McConnell is retiring. The seat is open. And on Tuesday, Democrats in Kentucky will choose who they want to run for it. The...
Jerome Powell’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends tomorrow. On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed his replacement by a vote of 54 to 45, the closest confirmation of a Fed chair in the modern era and the first to fall almost entirely along party lines. Kevin...
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section had roughly 40 full-time attorneys. The section was created after Watergate specifically to investigate and prosecute corruption by public officials....
For five years, Alabama fought to keep a congressional map that federal courts ruled was racially discriminatory. It lost in court repeatedly. It defied the orders anyway. On Monday, with voters already casting absentee ballots for a primary eight days away, the...
Chedrick Greene is a firefighter from Saginaw, Michigan. On Tuesday, he won a state Senate seat in a district that Kamala Harris carried by less than one percentage point in 2024. He won it by 19. Greene’s victory preserved the Democratic majority in the...
