South Africa’s transition from apartheid showed that a common future could be pursued without denying the pain and injustice of the past The ballot boxes have closed, the votes have been counted and the political contest concluded. The immediate focus…
The 2026 midterm results may have softened the immediate political impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision, but they do not diminish its long-term consequences for voting rights and minority representation, says an election law expert at Washington University…
Democrats have dominated the US midterm elections and are set to take both the House of Representatives and the Senate giving them a swathe of new powers. After the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, they will be able…
Republican Brent Taylor won election Thursday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Tennessee's 9th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Justin Pearson. Taylor is a state senator who benefited from a vastly reconfigured congressional district that carved up a majority-Black district in Memphis.
Over 50 House Democrats apparently called for it to be invoked over his posts about the Iran War There are renewed calls for the American government to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, and with it, potentially strip…
Voting is an act of essential civic engagement that entails profound consequences for the common good both at home and abroad. The U.S. political system has shown signs of distress in recent years, harkening to the Bush v. Gore landmark Supreme Court…
WZTV Taylor was projected to defeat Democrat Justin J Pearson and independent candidates Dennis Clark and Michelle Davis Head RELATED COVERAGE | Nashville in Focus: Tennessee governor's race, the numbers you should notice Taylor will represent communities across parts of 15 counties:…
The 18-year-old granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. reflects on the significance of her first election, Gen Z’s political engagement, and more. “When I was actually putting my ballot into the machine, I kept putting it in incorrectly,” she recalled…
On poverty, power and public policy As Rep. Justin J. Pearson stood on stage at his election night watch party thanking his family and supporters, a check mark appeared next to the U.S. House of Representatives District 9 race on the Tennessee Secretary…
A wild campaign ad from Mississippi is going viral as the state shows signs of a potential political shift. See what's got everyone talking. When I was 14, MTV came to my house because I was one of Britney Spears' biggest…
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