The next president will appoint more than 100 federal judges to the bench, providing an opportunity to mold the federal judiciary towards his or her liking.
Former President Donald Trump told his supporters Tuesday to vote for him "no matter how long it takes" as Americans cast their ballots in a tight and fraught election.
In a pathetic indictment of their ability to master the more basic elements of American diplomacy, a number of major U.S. embassies around the world are canceling their traditional election night parties. As Politico reports, U.S. “embassies from Brussels to London, Paris and Berlin have decided against holding their usual watch parties.” Explaining that the […]
It would be surprising if even one in a thousand voters knew that the media can call a state winner in a presidential election before any Election Day votes made in voting booths are counted. In so-called noncompetitive contests, the media can, and do, declare winners immediately after the polls close. Even fewer voters might be aware […]
PITTSBURGH — If you wanted to have a keen, dispassionate understanding of how much the Republican Party has changed over the past eight years, all you had to do was stand outside the PPG Paints Arena in the city’s Hill District neighborhood and see the line of people stretched 10 blocks in either direction up […]
Principal Stacey Bobo sent an email on Thursday to parents of students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private pre-K-12th grade school in New York City, detailing what school officials were doing to protect children from Election Day. “No matter the election outcome,” Bobo wrote, the school will “create space to provide students with […]
Contemporary American politics is a shameful spectacle. And we’re going to keep getting heaping helpings of it until the day we die. Last night, Oprah Winfrey told women assembled at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris that if they “don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever […]
As we file into voting booths to decide our nation’s future, it can be tempting to see our political opponents as our enemies. But the health of our great nation relies on seeing them, instead, as our friends and neighbors with whom we happen to disagree on many issues. It’s easy to listen to Fox […]
Former President Trump cast his ballot in Florida on Election Day, despite his 34 felony convictions in New York. While Florida has some of the strictest laws in the country against felons voting, Trump's hush money conviction did not disqualify him from the voting booth. If a Florida resident is convicted of a felony in...