Bergen County, New Jersey sheriff Michael Saudino — as well as four of his undersheriffs — just resigned after racist remarks came to light. OFFICIAL! Bergem Sheriff resigns over racially and homophobic…
A recent poll of 2,000 Florida voters found that while Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum is beating Republican Ron DeSantis by a comfortable margin, the U.S. Senate race is much closer. The…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 9/14/18, 12:39 PM ET: This article has been updated to account for Kathy Hochul’s primary win over Jumaane Williams.) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (D-New York) defeated progressive underdog and former…
Thursday night’s New York primary is home to perhaps the biggest showdown yet between the establishment wing and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. And voters across New York City have…
North Carolina is frantically preparing for its second major hurricane in three years, with mandatory evacuations being issued, schools being closed, and coastal towns in particular expecting the worst. Yet in 2012,…
“We lock up too many people for too long. It’s about time we change the dynamics. I apologize for that,” former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) said of the prison system at…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 9/6/18, 1:06 PM ET: This article was updated following both chambers of the GOP-controlled Michigan legislature approving the minimum wage measure.) Things aren’t really stacking up in Michigan Republicans’ favor…
While much of the nation was focused on the upset in Tuesday night’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Florida, several Oklahoma lawmakers also lost their primaries. Specifically, six Republican lawmakers who voted against…
The morning after Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) won the Republican primary in the gubernatorial election, he made a racist reference to his black opponent, Andrew Gillum. During an interview on Fox News…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 8/31/18, 5:12 PM ET: This article was updated to include a link to the “inviolable contract” in commonwealth law stating that Kentucky public employees’ retirement benefits will not be altered,…