U.S. House Returns Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024
On recess for weeks, the U.S. House will return to D.C. this week.
Ballotpedia’s Daily Brew for Monday, Nov. 11, 2024
Looking ahead to 2026 U.S. Senate elections; breaking down the gains in state legislative chambers so far; state financial officer elections results.
What is the Federal Reserve Thinking?
I try to take some time off and the Fed commits one of the most boneheaded mistakes in decades, in the one policy area in which I still have confidence.
Ballotpedia’s Daily Brew for Friday, Nov. 8, 2024
Continued election updates.
It Is Time To Take a Step Back
When you miss as widely as I did, you need to reassess – a lot of things.
Liz Cheney Responds to GOP Win
The White House will return to GOP
Ballotpedia’s Daily Brew for Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024
Post-election coverage.
The Case for Kamala Harris as President
voted for and support Kamala Harris in the general election because there is no question in my mind that Trump poses a threat to democracy and the rule of law. We can correct bad policies through a subsequent election, but it is much harder to regain your democracy once you have lost it. There will be no John Kelly, Jim Mattis, Mark Esper, or Dan Coats to provide guard rails on Donald Trump in a second term.
Ballotpedia’s Daily Brew for Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024
Election preparation and results – we’ve got you today and all week.
Well Behaved Women
If there is a unifying theme in American Women’s History, it is the constant, never-ending insistence that women exceed expectations to be heard. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quotation, “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” is often misinterpreted as a call to action. In reality, it was the lament of a historian observing that the archive often silences women unless men deemed their behavior problematic because women had no voice in government, no property, no power, and, therefore, left no records.
