Mid-Terms 2018

The alleged fraud took place behind the scenes: the work of election officers, not individual voters.

The passage of Medicaid expansion in three deeply conservative states is evidence that a less partisan presentation of policy is allowing voters to make decisions based more on their own interests.

If 2018 was a wake-up call, 2019 is set to be a reckoning.

On a big day for Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis assumed his new position on Tuesday and, despite his efforts to delay it, Amendment 4 took effect.

As the state's longest-serving governor leaves office buoyed by positive news stories, it's easy to forget the times when his governorship and the state budget seemed doomed to crash.

Research shows that having more women, more people of color, and more LGBTQ people makes for a more productive, bipartisan, and responsive legislature.

A total of 127 women were sworn in to the 116th Congress as part of the most diverse class ever.

Congress has not passed any harassment-related legislation beyond cleaning up its own internal process for handling complaints—but that could change as a result of the 2018 mid-terms.

After some striking defeats in the mid-term elections, California's Republican leadership must recalibrate.

Nearly two weeks after Election Day, we still don't know who will join the historic 116th Congress in every district.

Attorneys oversee the ballot process at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Warehouse on November 15th, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Media outlets have been quick to attribute women's electoral achievements to Democrats but the reality is more complicated than that narrative suggests.

By the morning after Election Day, America knew the number of women in the House of Representatives would hit historic highs. Could the Senate and governors' mansions, too?

Here's what that means for policymaking in the U.S.

The five boroughs saw unusually high precipitation on Tuesday, with nearly 100 percent humidity, as New Yorkers trudged through the rain to cast their ballots.

A number of ballot initiatives dealing with environmental issues were rejected by voters across the country, but governors and representatives with conservation bonafides can still pick up the slack.

Turnout levels appear to have been high—and high numbers of Latinxs told their friends and families to vote too.

Across the country, Americans had their enthusiasm to vote tested by problems at polling places including long lines and a shortage of ballots.

Voters in three of four states with marijuana ballot proposals passed initiatives that loosen restrictions on the substance, but that won't necessarily result in nation-wide expansion of this policy.

Both amendments were patterned after a successful policy change in Tennessee.

In what many see as a referendum on Trump's immigration policies, voters in several states rejected anti-immigrant platforms and ballot initiatives.

Political scientist David Faris argues that Tuesday's mid-terms were a clear repudiation of President Donald Trump and his party.

A record number of women ran for some of the nation's highest offices this year. Here's how they've influenced the gender make-up of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the states' governors.

The answer: pretty well.