A towering figure at Harvard University and in national politics for over a quarter-century, the economist now faces the ...

Larry Summers once drove Cornel West out of Harvard in a very public fight. Now, Summers is back in the spotlight, and West can’t help but point out the irony. “There's a certain level of, not just ...

That’s the kind of fight Jackie has yearned for since her days in the 1960s as a student rabble-rouser during UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement. She’s been battling for better wages and working ...

Besides deciding local contests, local area voters chose from candidates for numerous county and state-level offices during ...

Iowa Democrats have chosen West Des Moines City Council Member Renee Hardman as the party's nominee for a coming special election for an Iowa legislative seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Claire ...

PARKERSBURG — West Virginia Democrats who were optimistic before the Nov. 4 elections are even more optimistic now for 2026. “Absolutely,” Mike Pushkin, state Democratic Party chairman, said. “What we ...

BELOIT ‒ Voters had a rare chance to reshape the West Branch Local Schools Board of Education with three new faces, at least. It looks as though they selected three − a principal, a retired educator ...

Trump has held his coalition together throughout much of the first year of his second term in office like few other figures could — albeit at times with bailing twine and a red MAGA cap — but cracks ...

Incumbent Kevin Trevillyan has staved off a challenge from Jennie Doke-Kerns to win another term on the West Des Moines City Council in the Nov. 4 election. Trevillyan took 54% of the vote to continue ...