GO TO ANY American high school holding an election for class president and inevitably one candidate will craft an agenda of alluring promises—free pizza at lunch,...
Juries are less willing to impose capital punishment
Campaign finance has changed dramatically over the past 15 years, but not in ways that many expected. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in 2010, Citizens United...
ESTHER De Varona, a 77-year-old activist, wants her fellow Miamianos to vote in November to enshrine a right to abortion in Florida, one of ten states...
Some women’s groups argue that transferring them puts female inmates at risk
The Republican candidate for vice-president, J.D. Vance, warns that Democrats could win the election for what, in Donald Trump’s party, is a shocking reason: more people...
WHEN ERIC ADAMS, New York City’s mayor, was 15 he was arrested and beaten by a police officer. He went on to become a police officer...
If Republicans were about to experience a breakthrough among black voters, as some polls had suggested, New Jersey’s tenth congressional district (which includes Newark) might be...
WHEN Gerald Ford accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president at the 1976 convention, he stood, literally, between the party’s past and future. He shook hands...
Buckets of money, vicious advertising and consultants galore have left the race for the state a virtual tie