Paul Whiteley has received funding from the British Academy and the ESRC. The resounding victories in recent elections by Democrats Zohran Mamdani in New York, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie ...

Like so many other progressive politicians, Rep. Chuy García (D., Ill.), seems to like posing as a defender of democracy more than he likes competitive elections. On his way out of office the Chicago ...

A clear majority of voters would choose a Democrat candidate for Congress if the midterms were held today, a new poll shows. The PBS News/NPR/Marist survey, conducted between November 10 and 13, ...

A group of Democrat lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds released a video Tuesday urging service members to "refuse illegal orders," a message conservatives blasted as a call to defy ...

“I don’t think rent prices or food prices are at the forefront like they should be,” said Nicole Stokes of Dallas, Texas, who participated in NPR’s poll and voted for Trump last year. “You know – the ...

Democrats were knocked back on their heels in 2024 by the party’s erosion of support among young men. They were gratified to see improvement with that group in key elections earlier this month. In ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck E. Schumer (D-New York) in D.C. on Nov. 5. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) It’s hard to see how the government shutdown and reopening is anything other than a defeat ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Democrats appear more fired up than Republicans about voting in next year's congressional elections following the party's victories in recent state and local contests, ...

Stunning intraparty tensions erupted on the House floor when one Democrat accused another of undermining the Constitution. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., unexpectedly rose during House votes ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

A Utah judge on Monday rejected the new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal that creates a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the the 2026 midterm elections ...

The fury at eight Democratic-aligned senators who voted with Republicans to end the longest-ever government shutdown highlights the dramatic shift in the Democratic Party less than a year into ...