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Emily DeRuy / The Atlantic Old Friends Face Off in a Primary With Race at Its Center
Houston Democrats Gene Green and Adrian Garcia are asking Latino voters to choose between an incumbent ally and a Hispanic challenger.
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Emily DeRuy / The Atlantic Could Dolly Elizondo Be the First Texan Latina in Congress?
Elizondo is vying to replace Ruben Hinojosa in Congress, but she’ll have to mobilize unlikely voters to get there.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Class of 2010 Heads Home
Discouraged with Congress, some representatives elected in the Tea Party wave are leaving Washington after just three terms. Here are four of their stories.
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Michael B. Thomas / AFP / Getty Why DeRay Mckesson Is Running for Baltimore Mayor
An interview with the Black Lives Matter activist, who insists he’s not a politician, and says the city must work for everyone.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Maine Governor Paul LePage's Latest Stunt
The move caps a week in which he insulted lawmakers and then tried to play off his racist comments and support for the guillotine as ploys for attention.
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John Minchillo / AP The Populist Revolt
From Flint to New Hampshire, an angry American public is determined to challenge the status quo.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Restoring Voting Rights for Felons in Maryland
The Maryland General Assembly overrode Governor Larry Hogan's veto.
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Jeff Robertson / AP DeRay for Mayor?
A high-profile Black Lives Matter activist is taking his fight to the polls, joining the race to become the next leader of Baltimore.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters Ferguson Weighs a Federal Plan to End Its Abusive Policing
The consent decree would impose sweeping reforms on a municipality that systematically violated the rights of its residents for years. Is it willing to pay for them?
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Matt Young / AP Liz Cheney Makes Nice
The former vice president’s daughter is taking a second shot at Wyoming politics after a disastrous Senate run left her branded a carpetbagger. Why her campaign for the House might have better luck.
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John Minchillo / AP Rand Paul's Bigger Problem Back Home
The Kentucky senator is languishing in the presidential polls, and he now has a new challenger for his Senate seat.
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Chris Keane / Reuters Is North Carolina's Strict Voter-ID Law Constitutional?
A judge began hearing a second challenge to the state’s restrictive new voting laws, passed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Shelby County decision.
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Susan Walsh / AP Could At-Large House Districts Solve Washington's Gridlock?
An institution beset by partisan polarization might benefit from an influx of moderates.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Who Poisoned Flint?
Michigan’s state government took control of Flint with an emergency manager—then shrugged at its water crisis, saying it was a problem for the city to fix.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP The Plot Against Paul LePage
A group of Maine legislators hopes to impeach the state’s controversial governor for using state money to intimidate his political opponents.
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WFP / Connecticut State Senate Democrats / Andrew … The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America
The Working Families Party has pushed the political debate to the left in the states where it’s already active. Now—in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders—it’s ready to take that fight nationwide.
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Nati Harnik / AP How Democratic Are Ballot Initiatives?
Liberal groups hope to bypass Republican-dominated legislatures by going right to voters—but does all the national money pouring into these measures undermine local control?
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Gregory Bull / AP How to Be a Republican Mayor
San Diego’s Kevin Faulconer thinks he can show the GOP how to win back the nation’s big cities. But is there enough substance to back his style?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Consequences of California's Top-Two Primary
The system was set to encourage candidates to reach out to independents and moderates—but instead paved a way for them to interfere with the state’s election.
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Susan Walsh / AP How to Block Minority Representation, Yesterday and Today
