Midterms

The November 2022 midterms have come and gone, but there are still some potential lasting implications that could influence the next election season. One is that young people, aged 18 to 29, had one of the highest voter turnouts in a…

Twenty years had passed since Tina Staley was marching alongside other members of Republicans for Choice, pushing to get candidates who supported abortion elected. Staley was registered as an unaffiliated voter, and still is. At the time,…

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on women at the ballot box and women's rights in a recent interview, saying "We’re not going back."In her interview with The 19th, a nonprofit news group that focuses on women's issues,…

California voters just showed how much they value the arts—to the tune of $1 billion per year. On November 8, Election Day, they overwhelmingly approved Proposition 28, “The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability…

Samuel Corum/Getty Images) The Republican National Committee is setting up a team of advisors to conduct a review of their midterms performance, the committee announced this week. While Republicans gained a slim majority in the House,…

Before Election Day, anxiety mounted over potential chaos at the polls. Election officials warned about poll watchers who had been steeped in conspiracy theories falsely claiming that then-President Donald Trump did not actually lose the…

Cassandra Lopez had two words on her mind as she cast her ballot in the heart of Phoenix on Election Day.The 27-year-old bank employee was one of many downtown office workers who spent their break voting at the Footprint Center. Outside the…

With control of Congress and statehouses at stake, voters across the nation headed to the polls on Election Day 2022. That was after more than 42 million people had already voted early or by mail. The Conversation asked four scholars…

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Former Vice President Mike Pence says that former President Donald Trump's repeated re-litigating of his 2020 election loss may have contributed to the Republican Party's lackluster performance in last week's midterm…

A major international security conference started Friday in Halifax with repeated reassurances that the results of the U.S. midterm elections won't mean a major shift in U.S. support for Ukraine.U.S. New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne…