Disproportionate and low voter turnout presents challenges for municipal democracy nationwide. However, a straightforward ...

The renewed focus on electorally successful Democrats with executive power marks a clear contrast with the playbook from ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Democrats know they need to escape political purgatory. Finding a leader to steer the way is the party’s most daunting challenge after President Donald Trump won a second, ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

Judge Jefferson Griffin was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when ...

President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned ...

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Dan Rupli, a trial attorney, political consultant and Democratic civic activist, died of stroke complications March 13 at ...

Former Louisiana Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, a Democrat who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and who ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...