Maine’s semi-open primary gave independents a voice. Now party insiders are poised to pick Graham Platner's replacement without them.

Platner race—and the name that is closing the gap with Collins before any announcement has been made may help the party avoid a full Joe Biden situation.

As Democrats scramble to replace Graham Platner, the former logger and Maine Senate president offers a rare mix of ...

To protect public safety, the DEA is moving to put concentrated 7-OH Kratom compounds in the same legal category as heroin and LSD.

John Oliver’s redistricting warning is blunt: escalating partisan map wars may win seats now, but it destroys the basic idea ...

The people currently getting any credit for wanting to fix it are not the people with the power to do so, and the people who do have that power were never in Washington to begin with.

A bipartisan House caucus wants to stop politicians from redrawing congressional maps whenever the next partisan power grab ...

A of Maine's election statutes is a provision built for exactly this kind of situation: a primary winner who becomes, in the party's estimation, more liability than asset before the general election ...

They say independents can vote. Their initiative strips the constitutional guarantee that lets every voter choose any ...

Whether the billionaire wealth tax survives will come down to a simple count: if Proposition 40 beats both Proposition 41 and ...

His campaign website frames the entire race around one premise: that Big Money has corrupted both parties to the point where ...

A California court’s ranked choice voting remedy is about Latino representation. But it also reflects a larger reality: ...