U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, an outspoken congressman from Texas, is running for the state’s attorney general’s office and talked with ...

Proposition 12 would allow the governor to appoint a majority of the commission that disciplines judges, as Abbott condemns “activist judges.” ...

The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C. States across the U.S. are racing to redistrict as California prepares to vote on Proposition 50.

The Cook analysis shows nine Democrats in tossup races too close to call. Four are likely to see their districts altered — California Reps. Adam Gray of Merced and Derek Tran of Cypress, who would ...

The nominators didn’t all agree, and, of course, had their own perspectives and agendas, but through those conversations, we found the 25 most promising rising Democratic leaders who have yet to ...

Texas is facing a literacy crisis, with low literacy rates, inequities in the education system, and a lack of data on student progress, while also trying to integrate technology into the classroom ...

Elections in multiple states on Tuesday are set to gauge how voters feel in the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency — and whether Democrats have improved their standing with the midterm ...

This week’s election will likely mark another milestone in the partitioning of America into divergent and increasingly hostile blocs of red and blue states.

New laws, firings and pressure facing universities across Texas mirror historic conflicts over academic freedom that reshaped ...

The government shutdown entered its second month on Saturday, and the stalemate between Republican and Democratic senators could soon see a breaking point as federal food programs stopped issuing ...

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson’s pronouncement this week that he wouldn’t pursue a new congressional map set of a round of tensions and infighting within the party ...

The Trump administration has taken the government shutdown as an opportunity to end federal oversight of the education ...