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With a decisive margin in the Senate, Republicans, who have shown their willingness to accommodate the president-elect, will have the numbers to overcome divisions over his personnel and policies. Republicans' [...]

Politics came last at the 89th Ephrata Fair Parade. After the cheerleaders, Shriners and Cub Scouts, after the Republican float piled with bales of hay, local Democrats, on Float No. [...]

No state is more coveted by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris than Pennsylvania, since their best strategies for an Electoral College victory hinge on winning it. With polls showing a [...]

On Dec. 1, 1960, the far-right preacher and racist demagogue Gerald L.K. Smith sent out a fund-raising appeal, headlined with a shocking claim in red type across the top: 'HOLD [...]

Throughout the Trump era it was a frequent theme of liberal commentary that their political party represented a clear American majority, thwarted by our antidemocratic institutions and condemned to live [...]

Voters of color make up an increasing percentage of the United States electorate, but that trend isn't hurting Republicans as much as conservatives fear. The Census Bureau released two important [...]

The new division in politics isn't between liberals and conservatives. It's between liberals and illiberals. Last month, Gallup released the results of a survey showing that public support for a [...]

Leaders of both political parties suggest that impeachments, Electoral College standoffs and Supreme Court nomination blockades may become frequent fights in American politics. WASHINGTON -- The second season of impeachment [...]

It's meaningless theater. Once the Electoral College has met and every state's election has been certified, there is no constitutional provision for an ''alternate slate'' of electors. A group of [...]

Every vote matters, but thanks to the Electoral College, some votes may matter more. Love it or hate it, the Electoral College is the turnstile to the White House, and [...]

Government of the minority, chosen by a minority, on behalf of a minority, is not what Lincoln had in mind at Gettysburg. To hear more audio stories from publishers like [...]

If you were looking for the perfect distillation of how dysfunctional the American system of electing the president is, it would be hard to top last week's federal appeals court [...]

President Trump's approval ratings are under water in national polls. His position for re-election, on the other hand, might not be quite so bleak. His advantage in the Electoral College, [...]

The demographic changes coming over the next few decades -- the continuing rise of a more diverse electorate, with more liberal views than previous generations -- won't destroy the Republican [...]

The winners of Tuesday's elections -- Republican or Democrat, for governor, mayor or dogcatcher -- all have one thing in common: They received more votes than their opponent. That seems [...]

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, ex-slaves lined up across the South, clutching their ballots, joining the first elections in which large numbers of black Southerners participated. One [...]

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- This might have been Montanans' splashiest national publicity week since Butte's Evel Knievel crashed his motorcycle jumping the Caesars Palace fountains. On Wednesday, the night before the [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump took aim at reporters on Thursday for more than an hour at an impromptu White House news conference. ''The press has become so dishonest,'' he said, [...]

WASHINGTON -- One by one, the Democratic lawmakers stepped to the microphone on Friday, holding on to their letters and an impossible dream: denying the presidency to Donald J. Trump, [...]

WASHINGTON -- In Florida, protesters swarmed the Capitol rotunda, one hoisting a ''Trump Is Too Rusky'' sign featuring a hammer and sickle. In Wisconsin's statehouse, a heckler shouted, ''We're all [...]

DALLAS -- I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States. Since the election, people have asked me [...]

When the modern Tea Party movement coalesced in the early days of the Obama presidency, its allusion to the political grievances of the protesters in Boston Harbor a couple of [...]

One big fear in the weeks leading up to the presidential election was that Donald Trump would try to delegitimize the results by claiming rampant voter fraud -- a bogus [...]

In November 2000, as the Florida recount gripped the nation, a newly elected Democratic senator from New York took a break from an upstate victory tour to address the possibility [...]

The traditional goal of a presidential nominee is to win the presidency and then serve as president. Donald J. Trump is not a traditional candidate for president. Presented in a [...]