In July 1945, just weeks after leading Great Britain to final victory over the Nazis, Prime Minister Winston Churchill found himself booted out of office by an electorate that didn't merely reject his bid to stay in power but did so overwhelmingly. Any notion that Churchill's historic ...

On the night of the election, a member of the Trump team called me about an hour after polls had begun to close to tell me they saw signs of a win. A few hours later, a friend close to the Harris team called to tell me senior members of the campaign had begun advising senior Democrats they saw ...

Now that the 2024 presidential election has come to its inevitable if protracted conclusion, can we turn the page? Donald Trump won so we won't have to sit through years of conspiracy theories about how Democrats have been training tiny monkeys to live in the ballot scanners and reject all ...

Recently, Californians voted against Proposition 33, a ballot measure that would have allowed cities across the state to impose broader rent control policies. Despite record-breaking campaign spending — over $150 million between supporters and opponents — 62% of voters rejected the ...

Donald Trump has won America's presidential election. Many have long worried that a Trump victory would place American democracy in jeopardy. Washington Post Columnist Ishaan Tharoor, for example, detailed myriad ways he thinks a victorious Trump would subvert American democracy: “As my ...

It shouldn't have been hard for Kamala Harris. Not against the absurdly toxic politics of Donald Trump. An older Democratic Party, less beholden to the big megaphones on the fringes, would have had an easier time of it. Kamala Harris did her best to move her politics to the center, but she was ...