Alaska's embarrassing experience this election cycle should end America's flirtation with ranked-choice voting.

Democrats flipped legislative chambers in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states, creating trifectas that could reshape redistricting.

Michigan Republicans got crushed in 2026. Strategist Jamie Roe says the answer isn't blame, but better communication and a new strategy.

In the week since Democrats won their most commanding victory in recent memory, the party’s so-called moderates have been eager to claim victory for their faction. Despite firebrand progressives winning Senate seats by healthy margins in states like Michigan and Minnesota, an advisor for the centrist think tank Third Way told the Financial Times that the “majority-makers were mainstream and centre-left Democrats.” The empirical argument here is...

Students vote inside the University of Michigan Museum of Art polling site in Ann Arbor on Nov. 3.

Abdul El-Sayed points to a baseball cap he received as a gift, emblazoned "JD HABIBI". When asked if he is seeking to run for president, he says, "Nope, I want to serve my state as U.S. senator." (Cre

Energy affordability advocates believe the results of the election have laid the groundwork for new policy to advance through Lansing.

U.S. Sen.-elect El-Sayed must build honest partnerships between Black and Arab communities in Michigan, and make room for difficult conversations.

The 2026 midterm elections delivered a solid blue wave for Democrats along with a new class of noticeably younger candidates across the board, beating out both new and incumbent senior opponents. Whether it was James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa in Texas, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Annie Andrews in South Carolina, Melat Kiros in Colorado or Josh Turek in…

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said she would not fully back current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to be the next majority leader when Democrats retake the majority in January. Slotkin told Politico that no single Democrat can claim credit for the party’s overall blue wave in the 2026 midterm elections, adding that she wouldn’t […]