To better understand what it’s really like to try and win an election as a woman, we spoke to women from every state who have done it — 97 women in all.

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Inflation isn’t under control, and we’re heading for a recession. Except, wait: The latest jobs report indicates that the labor market is healthier than it’s be… ...

But these are the members that you’d expect to side with the GOP at times.Most are members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of centrist Democrats, or the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus ...

The shutdown over immigration. What happened: The next government shutdown came less than five years later, but this time, it centered on immigration. In January 2018, Republicans controlled the ...

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California doesn’t just have some of the nation’s strictest gun laws and lowest gun death rates, it’s also maybe the best state to study gun laws in, said Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of ...

With this, former President Gerald Ford announced in March 1980 that he would not make a late entrance into the Republican presidential nomination race after long teasing a potential bid.For ...

In the first few years after former President Donald Trump assumed office, he essentially became a one-man litmus test for the Republican Party. Conservatives’ … ...