Three U.S. House seats in Nevada will remain under Democratic control after a sweeping win Thursday for the incumbents, while the state's tight Senate race was still too early to call.

I am sorry to report that Grant Ujifusa, my longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, died last month after a long and painful illness. His obituary in the New York Times, by Trip Gabriel, gives a fine account of his work on securing passage and President Ronald Reagan’s signature on the law for […]

Extreme weather is a factor in driving both illegal border crossings from Mexico into the U.S. and whether migrants return to Mexico, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Researchers analyzed data from more than 48,000 people living in 84 Mexican farming communities between 1992 and 2018....