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 ...

A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the blowback.

This, at least, is the portrait drawn by the State Democracy Index, developed by Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the ...

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

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday it’s important for his party to remain calm and be physically present at the start of the next Congress, pointing to the ...

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

(AP) — As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, Republican governors and ... police forces in the effort. Some Democratic-led states already are raising resistance.

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 Monitor's Climate Generation series featured a host of youth-driven solutions. Our team checks back in, finding triumphs ...