![Voters submit their ballots in Madison, Wisconsin.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Wisconsin-Election-2024.jpg)
How Wisconsin Democrats Easily Defeated 2 Conservative Constitutional Amendments How Wisconsin Democrats Easily Defeated 2 Conservative Constitutional Amendments
The August partisan primary marked the second time since 1996 that voters in the state rejected a constitutional amendment.
Sep 6, 2024 / StudentNation / Liam Beran
![Members of Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona State Constitution, at the Arizona House of Representatives on April 17, 2024, in Phoenix.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2147888164.jpeg)
Arizona’s Abortion Access Measure Is More Bad News for Trump Arizona’s Abortion Access Measure Is More Bad News for Trump
The GOP has been desperately trying—and failing—to shift the public’s attention onto other issues.
Aug 16, 2024 / Sasha Abramsky
![Project 2025, Going Backward](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1440_FEAT-10.jpg)
Project 2025, Going Backward Project 2025, Going Backward
Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller is trying to distance himself and his organization from Project 2025. (Painting inspired by Philip Guston’s KKK Paintings.)
Aug 15, 2024 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn
![Never Trump](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1440_FEAT-8.jpg)
Never Trump Never Trump
Public interventions (street, bus shelter, subway car), New York City, 2024.
Aug 13, 2024 / OppArt / Maia Lorian
![Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, is welcomed into the House chambers for the State of the State address on April 19, 2023, at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/peggy-flanagan-getty.jpg)
Meet Peggy Flanagan, Who Could Become the First Female Native Governor Meet Peggy Flanagan, Who Could Become the First Female Native Governor
If Tim Walz becomes vice president, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor would become governor and immediately make history.
Aug 13, 2024 / Simon Moya-Smith
![Kamala Steps Up…](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1440_FEAT-5.jpg)
Kamala Steps Up… Kamala Steps Up…
And Tim Walz joins her!
Aug 8, 2024 / OppArt / Jody Hewgill and Josh Gosfield
![In 2006, Tim Walz, a former high school teacher, spoke to a Minnesota teachers’ group when campaigning for Congress.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/tim-walz-teachers-gt-img.jpg)
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz’s Kindness A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz’s Kindness
“I was a C student, better in some classes, worse in others, and he didn’t leave out lesser-performing students.”
Aug 6, 2024 / Joan Walsh
![Governor Newsom visits a homeless encampment on 19th Street in 2021.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/edited-Newsom.jpg)
Gavin Newsom Is Creating a Disaster for Unhoused People Gavin Newsom Is Creating a Disaster for Unhoused People
The governor’s order to sweep California’s encampments will please his constituents—and perpetuate the homelessness crisis.
Aug 1, 2024 / Piper French