Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including on abortion politics and 2026 updates.

Vice president JD Vance has a huge lead now, but there are some other candidates who could help you cash in four years from now.

As painful as it is watching President Trump back in the White House, the reckoning for the Democrats will be worse. The party is facing a toxic stew of angry activists, aging leaders, still potent ...

Even though former Vice President remains the most well-known active Democratic leader nationally, there are a number of rising stars and ambitious state officials in the party who would be eyeing the ...

Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state announced Wednesday that she is running to succeed Gretchen Whitmer as governor in 2026, as the party tries to find its footing after November’s significant ...

The status of federal grant awards for EV charging and other environmental initiatives that were announced before Trump's ...

The best example of the ping pong nature of executive orders is the Paris Climate Accord. Obama committed the United States ...

The secretary of state is the first Democrat to announce a run for the seat, joining a field of three official candidates ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Wednesday bills that would reclassify certain crimes as hate crimes, replacing Michigan’s 1988 ethnic intimidation law with expanded definitions of the ...

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), in a brief turn as acting governor, signed a bill Dec. 1, 2023, to allow voters to ...