Ben Jacobs
Freelance Writer
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In Luria’s Virginia district, you’d expect threats to democracy to resonate.


Author Jeff Pearlman on how Herschel Walker’s football career shaped his political one.


Bannon’s four-month sentence is the first for a close Trump associate in the wake of January 6.


Democrats haven’t been faring well in Ohio. Despite running close to J.D. Vance, Tim Ryan probably won’t buck that trend.


Further implanting the attack on the Capitol in the public memory might be the committee’s most vital function.

Parsing the old, white, educated, libertarian, anti-tax, pro-choice politics of New Hampshire.

Mitch McConnell has now come out in favor of a few election law fixes that could protect democracy in 2024.


In the course of voters deciding partisan nominations for thousands of state, federal, and local offices, the US political environment shifted wholesale.


New Hampshire, Delaware, and Rhode Island picked their candidates.


The goal was to make “MAGA Republicans” a label for everything that voters find politically toxic about the GOP right now.