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Election 2021
June 10, 2024
Talia Jane
New January 6 Footage Exposes Chaos That Day—and Failed Trump Response
Previously unaired footage reveals what members of Congress were going through as they were forcibly evacuated from the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump Will Be Back on the Ballot Next Year, in All but Name
In Virginia, Glenn Youngkin kept his distance from the former president and won. It won’t be so easy for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.
November 3, 2021
Michael Tomasky
After the Virginia Disaster, the Democrats Better Get to Work
Now more than ever, they need to keep their focus and pass their agenda. But is that what they think?
November 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
The GOP’s Only True Purity Test Is the Delusional Belief in Election Fraud
Trump’s Big Lie is the one thing that keeps Republicans together.
November 2, 2021
Timothy Noah
How Daylight Saving Time Screws Up Voter Turnout
When Congress delayed the standard time switch to the first Sunday in November, some voters got too cranky to go to the polls.
October 27, 2021
Timothy Noah
Guess What Card Glenn Youngkin is Playing in the Closing Week
Toni Morrison, critical race theory—the Trumpy GOP gubernatorial candidate is trying to take Virginia back to the 1950s.
October 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
Glenn Youngkin Wants to Ban Toni Morrison’s
Beloved
The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.
October 25, 2021
Dean Obeidallah
Hey, There’s Another Governor’s Election in 2021, and It’s a Bellwether Race, Too
The New Jersey race is almost completely ignored, but if Phil Murphy holds his lead and wins, he’ll be the first Democratic governor to be reelected in decades.
October 25, 2021
Grace Segers
Virginia Democrats Turn to Barack Obama to Cure Their High Anxiety
With the Virginia governor’s race tightening, the former president headlined a Terry McAuliffe rally in an effort to Trumpify GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin.
October 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia’s Race for Governor
Many fear that if Terry McAuliffe loses, doom for Democrats is imminent. Don’t be so sure.
October 19, 2021
Raina Lipsitz
The Erie County Sheriff’s Race Is a Matter of Life or Death
Voters in Western New York have the chance to issue a strong statement about the dire conditions in American jails.
September 29, 2021
Alex Shephard
The MAGA-Lite Future of the Republican Party
Glenn Youngkin is running a tight race for Virginia governor against Democrat Terry McAuliffe by trying to be both a conventional conservative and a winking Trumpist.
September 16, 2021
Daniel Strauss
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Grace Segers
The Democrats’ California Lesson: Make Covid the Issue
Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state. Can it work next year in purple ones?
July 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
Don’t Blame New York City’s Election Mess on Ranked-Choice Voting
Blame the city’s corrupt and incompetent Board of Elections instead.
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