Candidate quality” continues to be a problem for the GOP this cycle, as Monthly Editor Nate Weisberg discovered while compiling his list of the 10 worst candidates running this November. This episode ...

When Trump cut a diesel deal with Putin and limited intelligenced sharing, a canny Zelensky didn't beg or cower.

Confusing financial aid offers make it hard to compare college costs—and a proposed fix in Congress is falling apart. Credit: Elena Lacey for The Hechinger Report Financial aid offer letters are ...

Just before the 2022 midterm elections, The New York Times’s data guru Nate Cohn flagged that many poll averages had become heavily influenced by “a wave of polls by firms like the Trafalgar Group, ...

Donald Trump could be even more dangerous as a lame duck--feral, unpredictible, and even more vicious when he's weakened.

Political scientist Seth Masket’s new book explains how GOP establishment history and mechanics made Donald Trump’s ascent inevitable.

Let’s all take a deep breath. We will need to do that a lot as Election Day nears and the results are counted. But these headlines lack proper context, leading to predictable concerns about Trump ...

Last week in Paris, a mix of genuine protest, opportunistic violence and government failure from education policy to the police response.

I went to judge a debate tournament and came away less worried about the teenagers than the politicians and pundits who argue just like them.

While Democrats are on track to win the House popular vote by eight points, that partisan tilt alone isn’t enough to carry the Senate.

The GOP is putting up a bumper crop of subpar candidates this midterms cycle. Here’s our countdown of the five worst.