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Ross D. Franklin / AP; Carlos Barria / … The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in Arizona
The Republican primary has given us the most antidemocratic slate of candidates in America, but can Democratic normies stop them in November?
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Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency / Getty What Kansas Means for the Midterms
The surprise defeat of a ballot measure may hold lessons for November and abortion access in other states.
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Don Campbell / AP Democrats Might Avoid a Midterm Wipeout
White-collar suburban voters will play an outsize role in upcoming elections.
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Ron Haviv / VII / Redux The Kansas Abortion Shocker
The defeat of an anti-abortion ballot measure could buoy Democratic hopes for an outraged electorate this fall.
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Jon Cherry / Getty The Real Reason Democrats Are Losing Ground on Education
The media seem to be missing the key takeaway from a new poll.
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Rachel Mummey / Reuters The Bannon Strategy
Fringe candidates promising to stop the steal, like Mark Finchem in Arizona, might just have their year.
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The Atlantic The Battle for Latino Voters in the Rust Belt
Democrats should be worried about losing Latino support—and not just in the obvious places.
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Liu Guanguan / China News Service / Getty Do Voters See a Difference Between Crime and Homelessness?
Plus: The case for staying in a bad marriage
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Nick Rohlman; The Atlantic Are Iowa’s Democratic Days Gone for Good?
Presidents, senators, and first ladies doted on the Simpson children. Now they’re struggling to face their state’s post-Trump reality.
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The Atlantic; Alamy The Abortion-Rights Message That Some Activists Hate
A devastating defeat in the Supreme Court could be a boon to the Democrats’ slim midterm hopes—if they can agree on the way to convert progressive anger into votes.
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Brittany Greeson / The New York Times / … The Election Denier Who Could Run Michigan’s Elections
Kristina Karamo was an unknown poll worker who claimed the 2020 election was fraudulent. Now she’s the Republican candidate for secretary of state.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Tayfun Coskun / … What the Primaries Reveal About the Future of Trumpism
The movement no longer depends on Trump himself.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Swing Voters in the Culture War
Persuadable people are out there, if Democrats just know where to look.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Democrats’ Midterm Identity Crisis
Biden’s agenda is stuck. His party hasn’t figured out how to replace it.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty The Wackadoodle Wave
If 1994 brought the Republican Revolution and 2010 delivered the Tea Party to D.C., the 2022 election may bring something even more extreme.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Art of the Dealer
J. D. Vance once decried Trump as “cultural heroin.” Now he’s won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Ohio by peddling Trumpism.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty Mitch McConnell’s Nightmare Scenario
Why a GOP takeover in this fall’s midterms is not quite a sure thing
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Getty; The Atlantic Biden’s Uncertainty Principle
Will life feel even remotely “normal” by the 2022 midterms?
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Gene Smith / AP Go Knock on Doors
Today’s Democrats can learn from the organizers of 1964, whose efforts to register Black voters across the South transformed the meaning of democracy in our country.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Biden Undermined Faith in Elections
The president is heightening the distrust in democracy that he promised to reduce.
