Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, is responding to the decision by Rep. Kevin Kiley to leave the Republican Party and become an independent.

A political mailer circulating in Augusta County is raising questions ahead of the upcoming redistricting referendum. Some advocacy groups say the messaging is misleading and harmful.

Following Monday’s Court of Appeal judgment, governors of the Peoples Democratic Party and the camp of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, are moving to close ranks by ...

Visitors to the U.S. Capitol will now have a visible marker of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and a reminder of the officers who fought and were injured that day.

Rothbard’s views on nations by consent are once again in the limelight. Libertarians who ignore the nationality question and continue merrily defending free ...

Second, Smith’s use of referendums is motivated not by an altruistic commitment to direct democracy. Rather, it is strategic and highly politicized — designed to hold her party’s divergent factions ...

As Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the country's top legislature on Sunday, Japan should have deeply repented for the wrong path it chose ...

Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines set bipartisan tongues wagging last week when he pulled off an audacious scheme – one commentator called it an “arrogant and just deeply cynical move” – to ensure ...

Majority Leader John Thune says that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections.

The horrors of Donald Trump’s second term didn’t come from nowhere, Cornel West argues. They’re the inevitable result of decades of neoliberal policies that built the oligarchy, which, at long last, ...

Columnist and historian Marc C. Johnson points out parallels with the Daines scheme and Burton Wheeler's handling of a 1933 Senate controversy.