Democracy

A gender-affirming care Supreme Court case that will decide whether Tennessee can continue to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth could imperil the ability of all Americans to make decisions…

Conservatives are leveraging President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral victory to again allege the 2020 election was fraudulent, demonstrating the prevalence of election integrity misinformation. “Kamala got 60 million votes in…

Republican Kelly Ayotte won the gubernatorial election in New Hampshire on Tuesday, beating Democratic challenger Joyce Craig. With Ayotte’s victory, there will soon be 13 women holding their states’ top…

Though a woman of color will not be heading to the White House this year, history was still made with the election of Angela Alsobrooks (D) in Maryland and Rep.…

With the election (mostly) settled, attention now turns to what it might mean for important corners of federal policy, one of them being health care price transparency. In health care,…

Flojaune Cofer, the epidemiologist and leading candidate in Sacramento’s mayoral race, will always remember watching her father die from congestive heart failure in 1993. She was 11,  the same age…

In an era of state preemption, by which state governments (often Republican) increasingly limit the ability of large-city mayors (often Democratic) to implement policies, the role of mayors is shifting and…

Trump won a personal victory in the 2024 election, sweeping all the swing states, improving his vote share just about everywhere, and—unlike his 2016 victory—garnering an outright majority of the…

Election night marked a historic day for Black women in politics — particularly Black women in the Senate — despite Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks have…

Nearly 10 years after the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) was founded to uplift the needs and interests of Black people across the country, issues like police brutality and mass incarceration…

Early Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Wilkening drove to his usual Election Day polling location at a church in Sarasota, Florida. But the 90-year-old quickly discovered no one there, the building destroyed…

Resilient election officials across the country administered a relatively smooth 2024 general election on Tuesday, despite reports of bomb threats, technical issues, and a polarizing online ecosystem that at times…