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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP Will Minority Voters Sway the California Senate Race?
Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez have courted African Americans and Latinos in their pursuit of Barbara Boxer’s seat.
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Matt Sullivan / Reuters Ohio's Questionable Voter Purge
The Buckeye State is kicking residents who haven’t cast a ballot since 2008 off its rolls—a “use-it-or-lose-it” approach critics say disparately affects minorities.
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Paul Sancya / AP Republicans Beg Marco Rubio to Keep His Day Job
Will the failed U.S. presidential hopeful change his mind and run for the Senate again?
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Selling Merrick Garland
Senate Democrats seem to be tailoring their message to voters ahead of November’s election.
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Scott Applewhite / AP The Impossible Task Facing Republican Leaders
The GOP’s elected officials find themselves working to salvage what they can of their party, without alienating their own voters.
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Orlin Wagner / AP The Show-Me-Your-Voter-ID State?
Missouri voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would require photo identification in order to participate in elections.
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Rick Scuteri / AP Arizona Republicans Try to Bring Back Court-Packing
A GOP-sponsored bill to add two new justices to the state Supreme Court awaits the governor’s signature.
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John Flesher / AP Who Gets to Drink From the Great Lakes?
A city’s proposal to divert Lake Michigan water is raising concerns about future water grabs from outlying regions.
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Eric Gay / AP When Jefferson and Madison Banned Guns on Campus
Today’s pro-gun politicians can’t avoid the fact that these founding fathers explicitly banned firearms from the university they founded.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters North Carolina's Civil Rights Act Violation
In a letter to Governor Pat McCrory, the Department of Justice said HB2, the controversial law on transgender bathrooms, runs afoul of the landmark legislation and demanded the state not enforce it.
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Michael Conroy / AP It's a Different Story Down the Ballot
In Indiana, an outsider candidate for Senate struggles to replicate the enthusiasm that has propelled Trump and Cruz.
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Steve Helber / AP The Lawsuit to Keep Virginia's Felons From Voting
The state’s Republican lawmakers said Monday they planned to stop the order to allow more than 200,000 convicted felons the right to vote.
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Reuters The Business of the DNC Convention
Minority and female-owned businesses in Philadelphia are cashing in on the multimillion-dollar political convention this summer.
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Danny Johnston / AP The Voter-ID Fight in Missouri
After a decade of battles, Republicans hope to call a referendum to amend the state constitution to require photo identification to cast a ballot.
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AP The Increasing Irrelevance of the Congressional Black Caucus
The group has failed to connect with young voters, which is not a good sign for its future.
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W. L. Sheppard / Harper's Weekly / Library … The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement
A century ago, the commonwealth's leaders weren't circumspect about their motives.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP How Race and Gender Shaped the Senate Race in Maryland
The matchup between Donna Edwards and Chris Van Hollen is a case study in the way Democratic politics are shifting on issues of identity.
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Jay Westcott / Reuters Defining Corruption Downward
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell asks the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the gifts he took, and the favors he performed, were just politics as usual.
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Chuck Burton / AP Why a Judge Ruled North Carolina's Voter-ID Law Constitutional
Thomas Schroeder said the state’s strict new voting law did not unfairly prevent black voters from casting ballots.
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Matt Rourke / AP The High-Stakes Senate Primary in Pennsylvania
National Democrats have enthusiastically backed Katie McGinty over former congressman Joe Sestak.
