Democrat Candidates Election 2020
In St. Louis, Voters Will Get To Vote For As Many Candidates As They Want
When voters head to the polls Tuesday to pick St. Louis’s next mayor,1 they’ll be faced with four names on the ballot. But unlike in most other elections, they won’t have to choose just one candidate to vote for. Instead, St. Louisans will experiment with a new form of voting that allows them to vote…
Read MoreWhy Fallout From Texas’s Winter Storm Won’t Hurt Republicans At The Ballot Box in 2022
Now that the worst of Texas’s winter storm is over, the question on the minds of many is what — or who — is at fault for the state’s lack of preparedness to a weeklong storm that left many without power or water. It’s too soon to know exactly how this will all unfold, but…
Read MoreWhy Trump’s Takeover of the GOP is Great for Biden and the Democrats (but a Potential Disaster for America)
Donald Trump formally anointed himself head of the Republican Party at Sunday’s Conservative…
Read MorePor que grandes jornais topam publicar mentiras sobre a covid-19 em forma de anúncio?
Visão aérea do cemitério Nossa Senhora Aparecida, em Manaus. Foto: Michel Dantas/AFP via Getty Images O país passa pelo seu pior momento desde o início da pandemia. São mais de 250 mil mortos, um número de infectados que não para de crescer e um ritmo de vacinação que levará até sete anos para imunizar 70%…
Read MoreThe Only Way Democrats Will Get Anything DoneMitch McConnell may…
The Only Way Democrats Will Get Anything Done Mitch McConnell may no longer be Senate Majority Leader, but Republicans can still block legislation supported by the vast majority. That’s because of a Senate rule called the filibuster. If we have any hope of safeguarding our democracy and ushering in transformative change, Democrats must wield their…
Read MoreAmazon VP Abruptly Resigns From Board of Liberal Legal Organization
Andrew DeVore, an Amazon vice president and associate legal counsel who manages the company’s “labor and employment” issues, has resigned from the board of the American Constitution Society. His resignation represents a sharp turnaround from a few months ago, when the liberal legal organization voted to renew DeVore for a second three-year term. ACS, which…
Read MoreWomen Of Color Have Always Been In Politics. Now They Are Changing Congress.
The current Congress includes more women of color than ever before, thanks to historic wins in the 2020 election. FiveThirtyEight spoke with three political scientists about why it’s taken so long to get to this point, and how having these women in office will affect the legislature.
Read MorePolitics Podcast: What The White House Thinks The Economy Needs
By Galen Druke More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS As Democrats prepare to pass the American Rescue Plan, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Heather Boushey, joins the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast to discuss what is in the package and why. The package is popular, with around 70 percent…
Read MoreFrance and the Myth of the Color-Blind Society
After a series of high-profile terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in France, the country finds itself in a heated debate over some of its most cherished values: laïcité, or secularism, and the principle of race-neutrality, or color-blindness, in public policy. A controversial new bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron targeting “Islamic separatism” is meeting…
Read MoreDemocrats Are Split Over How Much The Party And American Democracy Itself Are In Danger
Facing a Republican Party with a growing anti-democratic contingent, Democrats are debating what to do — to bolster their party and, in the view of some in the party, American democracy itself. At the heart of the discussion is how much structural reform do the nation’s governmental and electoral systems need. This debate is largely…
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