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President Joe Biden often cites the critical role that South Carolina played when he won the Democratic nomination in 2020.

Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party have voted to censure Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in nearly every way

Some Democrats have begun saying out loud what others are saying privately — that Joe Biden’s political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run again.

Jaime Harrison is a man leading a party in peril. A year after seizing total control of Washington, Democrats are grappling with painful losses in last week’s off-year elections that raised serious concerns about a much larger red wave in 2022.

Gov. Ned Lamont wants another four years in office and on Monday he filed the paperwork to run for re-election, but the Republican Party is ready to mount a challenge.

The off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey tend to receive outsize attention

Congressional Democrats are going bigger than ever on the environment, with a spending package they’re trying to muscle through.

A proposal on the Minneapolis ballot about the future of policing in the city where George Floyd was killed has its roots in the “defund the police” movement

Investigators in Texas have arrested a man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail inside Travis County Democratic Party headquarters in Austin

President Joe Biden is acknowledging frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his $3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says it’s up to the Democrats in Congress to raise the debt ceiling because they hold the White House, the House and the Senate.

A House committee has dealt an ominous if tentative blow to President Joe Biden’s social and environment package

Three hundred years ago, humanity’s most prevalent form of government was absolute power. Kings, sultants and emperors were free. Those they ruled over, the people, were not. As civilization became more educated, people began demanding a voice. Democracy decentralized authority and gave people a say in their governance. But as rulers became representatives, they learned they could recentralize their...

Is it possible to have a government that isn’t driven by ideological differences? Examples in North America alone, including one state house in the U.S., show that government bodies can be designed to avoid political parties and encourage cooperation. NBCLX storyteller Peter Hull takes a closer look at the possibilities of decentralized government.

Now that President Joe Biden is on the verge of his first big legislative victory, a key moderate Democrat says he may be open to changing Senate rules that could allow for more party-line votes to push through the White House’s agenda.

The outcome of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial may seem preordained, but the trial itself matters.

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III says he has no plans to run for office again anytime soon and has instead launched a new project aimed, in part, at supporting political races considered “unwinnable” by the Democratic Party.

Nancy Pelosi has been narrowly reelected as House speaker

Progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy solutions to major issues