Detroit bankruptcy solved – for now: What about other cities?
Everyone is congratulating Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, for helping to craft a bankruptcy settlement in Detroit.
Mail-in, provisional ballots upset Calif. Republican “upset”
Republicans badly wanted to win this historically red district, famous as the home for many retired military.
Seismic shift seen in Florida Cuban American vote
Despite winning the gubernatorial race in Florida last week, exit polling shows that Gov. Rick Scott lost Cuban-Americans to his Democratic opponent, 50 to 46 percent.
The fog that blinded the electorate
There were local and geographical peculiarities, but when an election was as uniformly one-sided as this one was, deeper explanations are required.
California bucks national GOP election wave
By an impressive vote of 58.5 percent to 41.5 percent, with a majority in every county in the state, Prop 47 passed, truly a huge people's victory.
New York Working Families Party pulls through difficult election night
"There's no way around it, losing the Senate is a tough blow for all of us hoping to see a progressive agenda enacted."
Election results mean hundreds of thousands more could be deported
The Midterm Elections have almost certainly put an end to any possibility of a legislated immigration reform until Jan. 2017.
Activists plan for Ferguson protests after grand jury decision
A St. Louis-based coalition of community, faith-based, and labor organizations proposed "rules of engagement" to safeguard residents and their right to protest.
Midterms 2014: high anxiety and low turnout
Democrats faced a bleak day-after with the Republican takeover of the Senate and resounding GOP victories on the state level.
