Midterm Elections 2022
Coverage of the 2022 midterm elections: House, Senate, ballot initiatives, and more.
It seems like the only concrete Democratic plan to protect abortion rights is voting.
The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe has made a national ban possible, but Republicans face considerable political obstacles.
Democrats don’t have a quick fix for the end of Roe because there isn’t one.
Democratic incumbents sailed to victory as Republicans leaned even more into Trump.
Will his violent campaign ad come back to haunt him?
Rick Caruso forced sitting LA Rep. Karen Bass into a runoff to lead the country’s second-largest Democratic stronghold.
The pandemic’s invisible influence over the midterm elections.
Once again, Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party was on the ballot. It still seems pretty strong.
Some progressive groups are urging Biden and Democrats to more aggressively cast corporations and billionaires as enemies in the fight against inflation.
Grassroots groups helped turn the tide in Georgia before. In 2022, they face an uphill battle.
Chesa Boudin is the latest target of backlash toward progressive prosecutors as anxieties about crime have increased.
Crime, party loyalty, and Donald Trump were on the ballot.
Everything you need to know about California’s primaries, explained by an expert.
The president says reducing the deficit will lower inflation. Will it?
The primaries this week underscored the limitations of Trump’s endorsement.
A South Texas runoff could show how motivating abortion rights can be for voters.
The power of a Trump endorsement has limits against the incumbent Republican governor.
Democratic voters are moving their party to the left — and dragging candidates with them.
A Louisiana judge is preventing Biden from ending the policy as planned.
Doug Mastriano’s primary win was bigger than anyone expected. Now some Democrats regret their wish for a matchup with him.
The map hasn’t even been finalized and it’s already getting ugly.
The takeaways from the biggest primary night yet were anything but clear.
Pennsylvania and North Carolina are among five states headed to the polls.
How the Pennsylvania Senate primary became a fight for the future of the Democratic Party.
Meet the person who wants to bring effective altruism to Congress.
Trump’s endorsement had mixed results this time around.
Limited by the filibuster and conservative members of Congress, lawmakers are zeroing on holding the Senate as one way to defend reproductive rights.
The races featured an early test of Trump’s influence and an intraparty Democratic fight.
Gutting abortion rights might not boost the GOP in the midterms.
DeSantis’s law will sniff out problems that don’t exist.
There’s a big test of Trump’s influence, an intra-party Democratic fight, and more.
Cleveland Plain Dealer politics reporter Andrew Tobias explains why Ohio’s drama-filled GOP Senate primary isn’t just a referendum on the former president.
The pandemic helped improve accessibility, but new election barriers in states like Wisconsin are rolling back gains for thousands of voters with disabilities.
What Biden (and Democrats) got wrong about young voters.
The 2022 Senate battleground states, explained.
Michigan is an early test of the political potency of Trump’s election lies.
Democrats are facing a reckoning on the local level — and it’s among themselves.
Republicans tilted the House map. Democrats are clawing their way back.
Some moderate Democrats are breaking with Biden over pandemic border restrictions ahead of the midterms.
They might help but they probably won’t be enough.