A political disaster such as what occurred Tuesday gains significance not simply by virtue of who won or lost, but through how the election is interpreted. This is known as The Lesson of the election.

On the eve of Election Day, tensions are high and voters are feeling anxious — that's been a theme throughout this entire election season. "There's a lot of drama everywhere. People have lost contact ...

“Change” is the word I have heard most often in postmortems on the 2016 election. America was tired of business as usual: Trump won because he represented change – disruption of the status quo; ...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump acknowledged that litigation was a “tactic” proven “successful” for him and his businesses over the years. A contemporary review of ...

Like a movie villain pausing to explain in detail his evil plan just before lowering the hero into the shark tank, election truthers keep talking and talking about their efforts to make sure they are ...

As Republicans have played a rearguard defense in what turns out to be an egregious instance of election fraud in the 2018 congressional election in North Carolina’s 9th district, they’ve sometimes ...

Mano a Mano In 2012, Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight website and Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium (PEC) competed covering that year's Presidential campaign. It wasn't much of a contest. The two ...

Spring ISD second-grade teacher Pattie Johnson always is on the hunt for a new way to get her pupils excited about learning. "I am the project queen of the school," she said. An eight-liner: A ...

Christian Mysliwiec is the commentary editor of The Daily Signal. Many Americans were prepared to wake up Wednesday without having a winner of the presidential election decided yet. Election officials ...

The tempestuous election of 2020 has been rife with predictions of confusion and cataclysm, with warnings that a contested battle could last well into December. It has happened before. Take 1800, for ...

It’s late on election night, and no one knows who our next president will be. Panic and exhilaration are rising around the newsroom. As phones endlessly ring, and data dribbles in from election ...

Don’t cross President Donald Trump. That’s the lesson many Republicans are drawing from Rep. Mark Sanford’s surprise defeat Tuesday in his primary election in South Carolina. The victor, state Rep.