Election Insecurity
Are We Making Elections Less Secure Just to Save Time?
Technologies like Wi-Fi that help deliver lightning-quick election results to a ravenous public can make voting infrastructure more vulnerable to hackers.
Politics
America’s War Narrative Focuses on Its Soldiers. Afghans and Iraqis Are Brushed Aside.
American soldiers are at the center of a crop of new books about Iraq and Afghanistan. This contributes to an incomplete narrative of those wars.
Donald Trump’s Former ICE Chief to Be Honored at Notorious Anti-Muslim Convention
ACT for America, which is run by an infamous anti-Islam activist, will be honoring former ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan at an event next week.
Tom Carper Backs Re-Importing Drugs From Canada, After Voting Against It Repeatedly
Health care is a top issue of voters, and it came up often in this week's Delaware Senate debate.
Trump's FTC Releases Nearly 500 Pages of Material on Conflicts of Interest — and Redacts It All
Andrew Smith may be setting a record for the most wildly conflicted corporate regulator.
Even Israeli Officials Are Warning That Trump's Moves Against Palestinians May Backfire
The Trump administration's latest move, to cut U.S. funding for basic services to Palestinians, could create more instability, experts warn.
NYC DSA, Ocasio-Cortez Stand by State Senate Candidate Julia Salazar, Despite Story Disputing Her Biography
The NYC DSA confronts its first political crisis and is standing firm behind Julia Salazar.
In Oklahoma and Arizona, Primary Voters Rewarded Candidates Who Stood With Teachers
Six out of seven Oklahoma GOP lawmakers who voted against increasing taxes to help raise teacher pay lost their runoff elections on Tuesday.
Voices
Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Ben Jealous Could Be the First Black Governors of Their States. Here’s How They Got This Far.
Organizing prowess, coalition-building, and progressive bona fides helped propel the candidates to primary victory in Florida, Georgia, and Maryland.
Establishment Candidates Teamed Up Against Zephyr Teachout in New York Attorney General Debate
Zephyr Teachout, the insurgent in the race, was treated more like the frontrunner.