Door-to-Door Foreboding in Colorado Door-to-Door Foreboding in Colorado
Upper-middle-class women kept telling me they just couldn’t vote for Clinton.
Nov 14, 2016 / Zach Dorfman
Election Night Saw Victories in Local Criminal-Justice Reform—This Should Be the Beginning Election Night Saw Victories in Local Criminal-Justice Reform—This Should Be the Beginning
Local prosecutor and sheriff races are winnable and build power.
Nov 12, 2016 / Robert J. Smith and Whitney Tymas
The Trump Voter You Know The Trump Voter You Know
It will be hard, but we’re going to have to find a way to talk with them.
Nov 11, 2016 / Column / Laila Lalami
These Election Results Will Define America These Election Results Will Define America
What’s the measure of a mandate? What will happen with the Senate? Will votes call for overturning Citizens United? Will a Somali-American immigrant win while Trump loses?
Nov 8, 2016 / John Nichols
Bernie Sanders’s Our Revolution Faces Its First Big Test Bernie Sanders’s Our Revolution Faces Its First Big Test
The organization has invested heavily in down-ballot races where a few thousand dollars can make a crucial difference.
Nov 7, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan
Don’t Tell Trump: Minnesota Is About to Elect a Pioneering Somali-American Muslim Woman Don’t Tell Trump: Minnesota Is About to Elect a Pioneering Somali-American Muslim Woman
It matters that Ilhan Omar will be elected to the Minnesota state legislature on the same day that Minnesotans reject Donald Trump.
Nov 7, 2016 / John Nichols
How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota
Omar’s platform focuses on economic, social, racial, and environmental justice.
Nov 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Cirien Saadeh
This Governor Wants to Take Over ‘Failing’ Public Schools and Turn Them Into Charters This Governor Wants to Take Over ‘Failing’ Public Schools and Turn Them Into Charters
These activists are telling Georgia’s Nathan Deal: That’s not how it works.
Nov 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Anna Simonton and Allie McCullen
Are Voters Getting Greenwashed at the Polls? Are Voters Getting Greenwashed at the Polls?
Contentious—and confusing—environmental issues are on the ballot in these states.
Nov 3, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Can the Working Families Party Break the Dem-GOP Duopoly? Can the Working Families Party Break the Dem-GOP Duopoly?
Its lawsuit in Pennsylvania just might allow the spread of “fusion” voting, which used to be the norm in American elections.
Nov 3, 2016 / Samantha Schuyler