elections
Midterms
Donald Trump’s Favorite Candidates Had a Pretty Bad Election Night
The former president was reportedly “livid" about all the losses.
By Caleb Ecarma
What Midterm Results Spell for LGBTQ+ Rights So Far
LGBTQ+ people had some incredible wins, though quite a few candidates running on anti-LGBTQ+ platforms won too.
By James Factora
Forget Red vs. Blue: The Progressive Youth Wave Wins 2022
With candidates like Summer Lee, John Fetterman, and Maxwell Frost, and policy gains on abortion and more.
By Lex McMenamin
You Should Thank Gen Z for Preventing a Red Wave
Young voters turned out in a major way in the 2022 midterms.
By Rachel Janfaza
The 2022 Midterms Cycle Saw Many Historic Firsts
Including wins for the first Gen Z member of Congress and first openly lesbian governor.
By Fortesa Latifi
6 Teens on What It Was Like to Vote for the First Time
“I’ve been talking about it for so long!”
By Fortesa Latifi
Election Deniers are Making for Messy Midterms
From Arizona to North Carolina, the GOP is trying to undermine what little democracy we have.
By Lex McMenamin
These Are the 5 Closest Senate Races in the 2022 Midterm Elections
There will be some nail-biters.
By Emma Specter
Midterms
Private Citizens With Guns Are Surveilling Ballot Boxes in Arizona
Some also reportedly filmed voters, and recorded their license plate information.
By Caleb Ecarma
How Gen Z Candidates Deal With the Hardest Part of Campaigning
The system is “biased against basically everyone but rich, old, white men."
By Rachel Janfaza
Our State Lawmakers Tried to Block College Students From Voting
The reason? “They said college students tend to be liberal.”
By Kiersten Iwai
This Dull-Sounding Electoral Practice Fuels Mass Incarceration
“Prison gerrymandering” is a major issue.
By Alexis Benveniste
What the Midterms Actually Are — And Why They Matter
They provide voters with the opportunity to change the party in power.
By Marilyn La Jeunesse
Inside One of the Races That Will Decide Control of the Senate
Arizona’s Mark Kelly says we have to stop treating politics like sports.
By Fortesa Latifi
I Was North Dakota’s Last Abortion Provider
For the past 20 years, the Red River Women’s Clinic was the state’s only abortion provider.
By Ashley Edwards Walker
These Elected Officials Have Way More Power Than You Think
Secretaries of state have a huge impact on whose vote counts.
By Hope-Marie Delgado and Dorothy McCarty
Beto O’Rourke Warns What a Third Greg Abbott Term Could Look Like
“It’ll just be a bullet train to the extreme edge of intolerance and hatred.”
By Fortesa Latifi
Imagine If There Were More Young People in Office
Congress is one of the oldest on average in recent history. That matters.
By Layla Zaidane
UK Politics
The UK's Prime Minister Resigns After Just 45 Days in Office
Conservative leader Liz Truss had the shortest term in the country's history.
By Vanity Fair
John Fetterman Is Here for the Memes — and for Pennsylvania
“It feels like Dr. Oz’s entire campaign platform is that I had a stroke,” Fetterman tells Teen Vogue.
By Lex McMenamin