California got a below-average No. 30 ranking among the states when my trusty spreadsheet looked at eight yardsticks of ...

Trump is challenging congressional Republicans to defy him as he says he will nominate controversial figures to his Cabinet.

Who turned out, whether they split their tickets and which issues motivated them helped lead to split outcomes for NC parties ...

President-elect Donald Trump shocked members of Congress by nominating former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Sen. Thom ...

As attorney general, Gaetz will be fully empowered to carry out Trump’s—and his own—incindiary mandate, litigating culture ...

If Trump nominates a candidate who Democrats uniformly oppose, he will only be able to lose four votes from his own party.

A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced the nomination of one of Democratic President Joe Biden's final picks to serve as a ...

Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted what have been lengthy sentences served by six criminal offenders in state ...

As of Wednesday morning, Republicans had taken back control of the Senate, beating Democrats in predictably red states like Ohio, West Virginia, and Montana while holding on to their seats in states ...

More than before, progressives working to protect people’s rights will need state supreme courts to be hospitable to lawsuits ...

A week after the election, I asked a few expert observers of North Carolina politics about what they’re seeing now that ...