It Could Take Weeks to Find Out If Democrats Won the House
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember this? Alan Diaz / APIf you’ve been nervously counting down the days until the November 6 election, we’ve got some bad news for you: You might have to wait quite a bit longer before you know who will control the House. That’s because roughly…
Meet the Luckiest Democrat in the World
Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eleven days after Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) was indicted for insider training last August, his long-shot opponent, a 43-year-old town supervisor from Niagara County named Nate McMurray, donned a black helmet, knee-pads, and an old pair of weathered jeans, and drove an old Cadillac into…
The Midterms Could Spell the End of the Bipartisan Climate Caucus
David Greedy/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the past two years, dozens of Republican and Democratic members of the US House of Representatives have banded together in the name of tackling climate change. This bipartisan…
It’s Time to Stop Freaking Out About Polls Being Wrong
SIphotography/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Trump’s surprise win in 2016 forced virtually everyone in politics and the media to question everything they thought they knew about predicting elections, there’s been a constant conversation among politicos about how the polls were oh so wrong. (Don’t even get them started on that damn New…
Unleash the Investigations! What Dems Could Do If They Win the House.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Doug ChaykaIf Democrats win one or both houses of Congress in November, they’ll have a real say in how the country is run for the first time since Donald Trump’s inauguration. Even if the White House and the GOP won’t cooperate with them, there are…
The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
James Victore; Source: T-Rex: Turbosquid; Trump: Dominic Reuter/Reuters Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the most important thing to know about climate politics in this critical election year: How fast we act decides the future we get. Of course, climate politics seems to be about many things, things that this…