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Nearly 4 in 10 local election officials experienced threats, harassment or abuse while on the job, according to a new poll. In the survey, published Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38 percent of local election workers reported "threats, harassment or abuse," while 54 percent said they are concerned about the safety of their...

In some states, teachers are barely making enough to be considered middle class.

NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actress slept with Donald Trump. “I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while...

Several of the justices focused on a parade of hypotheticals that allowed them to avoid the actual case before them.

Violence erupted between police and student protesters Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with hundreds arrested in New York. The New York City Police Department went through a second-story window at a Columbia building that had been seized by demonstrators and cleared out the protesters,...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Tuesday that "the time is now" for a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza war, and that it is up to Hamas to agree to Israel's proposal and "compromise." Blinken's remarks came during a press conference after he met with Israeli leaders earlier in the day. Asked by a...

Experience should have taught us by now that more government “fixes” at the local and federal levels will only make the problem worse. 

Clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators broke out at the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Tuesday night amid ongoing unrest at colleges across the country. Violence erupted shortly before 11 p.m. local time, when a group of counter-protestors came to the pro-Palestinian encampment set up on campus to try to dismantle it, KTLA...

The New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) sweeping operation at Columbia University late Tuesday was met with fierce criticism from many progressive lawmakers, who pushed officials to deescalate the situation. Hundreds of police officers stormed a campus building Tuesday, as they sought to regain control of a Columbia University building that had been seized by...

Accountability, almost always in short supply in American life, is desperately needed.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) brushed off Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) sharpened threat to force a vote to oust him from leadership in an interview Tuesday. “I don’t think she is proving to be, no,” Johnson said Tuesday on NewsNation’s "The Hill," when asked if he believes Greene is a "serious lawmaker." “I don't spend...

Hatred is a great motivator, but the question is always, to what end? Democrats are about to find out.

Dobbs did not simply “return abortion to the states.” Rather, it returned the power to the voters, who can exercise it through both their state and federal elected officials.  

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is greeting former President Trump's arrival in Wisconsin and Michigan for rallies on Wednesday with billboards aiming to remind voters of his record on abortion. The DNC is putting up two billboards in Wisconsin and one in Michigan near the sites of Trump's rallies scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and evening....