A Cook County judge ruled the “vague, ambiguous, and not self-executing" 2022 referendum conflicts with Illinois election law ...

Surveys show Americans do not believe the political system is serving them. A mathematician of democracy highlights ...

In the debate over whether demography is destiny, the 2024 presidential election showed clearly it is not. Democrats long believed that the diversifying of the country would lead to their party's long ...

The polarized election year exacerbated the trend of ‘greenhushing.’ Not long ago, businesses and investors liked to brag ...

The elections of the 2030s are already taking shape — and Democratic governors are making the next decade’s fights for the ...

At the presidential level, the effect is like flipping a midsize deep-blue state to the GOP: the 12 Electoral College votes Democratic states are losing equal the Electoral College representation of ...

With Tuesday marking the 161st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Lincoln historian Steve Beckett shares ...

This year's analysis also includes comprehensive general election coverage in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas. Previous years' data may also include instances of expanded ...

Good morning, Chicago. When former state Sen. Tom Cullerton walked out of federal prison on April 14, 2023, after serving time for public corruption, he was following in the footsteps of scores of ...

Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump ...

What you’ve seen is that you have many fewer competitive seats in the country because the way in which redistricting is ...