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On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan’s wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads. The Michigan gubernatorial...

Republican supporters of a Congressional candidate dubbed a “mini-Trump” in Minnesota used a family photo of his Democratic lesbian opponent to draw attention to “her female marriage partner and their 4 teenage sons.” Democratic opponents of a gay Republican...

by Cezary Podkul and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, and Will Parker, The Real Deal, This story was co-published with The Real Deal. In 2014, an obscure campaign in the foothills west of Albany between a sheep farmer and a home builder mushroomed into one...

In most respects, Robert Gates’s harsh weekend broadside against Donald Trump is unsurprising. Gates, a longtime Republican wise man in national security and defense circles, seems like a shoe-in to dislike Trump. Republican defense figures of all stripes...

As insurers push large premium increases for 2017 Obamacare plans, some of the steepest hikes have been requested by insurers in crucial swing states that could determine control of the Senate. In nine of 11 states with competitive Senate races, at...