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A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news.

Polling suggests Donald Trump’s win could be something even worse for Democrats: A historic defeat that puts Republicans in ...

The two parties clash over areas of former consensus, even as they reach detente on issues that defined the polarizing 2004 ...

The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald ...

No, this isn’t hyperbole.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. It’s part of Donald Trump’s plan, and it is coming right out of his mouth.

NBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki detailed Sunday the divide in voter demographics between President-elect ...

We didn’t have the votes to pass it last year. After the election results? I don’t see that changing,” Thayer says of ...

No matter who won the presidential election, the war in Ukraine was likely to end next year. Both Ukraine and Russia are ...

the policies that produced these outcomes were more popular among Republicans than Democrats. Moreover, the hypocrisy embedded in the rules-based international order often served to benefit the ...

Democrats are facing a long-term Electoral ... you could see differences in mortality widening across states, and that could map onto the political leanings of a state. Especially if red states ...