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LOS ANGELES — Racist Facebook posts a school board candidate’s husband made more than a decade ago — including one referring to then-President Barack Obama as a “plantation house boy” — have shaken up a school board election in the Antelope Valley, reviving tensions in a district where the educational…

Wisconsin race could alter balance of Senate

"Winning back that trust is going to take some time," he said Friday.

Author Kyle Spencer on how right-wing funders turned Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens into media superstars

Missing are the raucous rallies and big crowds of President Obama and President Trump before their first midterm election

What can 2022 midterm candidates’ fashion can tell us about race, gender and the future of the parties in US politics? Josh Marcus investigates

A literary honor has been named for a uniquely successful author: the Michelle Obama Award for Memoir

Separated by thousands of miles, two Indigenous groups are working together to elevate their voices on a shared problem. 

Throughout his five decades at Rolling Stone, the magazine’s co-founder Jann Wenner wrote hundreds of articles and spent time with some of the biggest names in music — Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon and Bob Dylan, to name a few — and politics, too, including presidents Bill…

More families who are offered expensive health insurance premiums from their employers will get a discount if they sign up instead for coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace this fall

There’s an understandable tendency to think of presidential actions in terms of how they will affect upcoming elections. But it’s worth taking a step back to consider what President Joe Biden’s move on marijuana policy tells us about how democracy actually works.