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Democrats are already trying to make sense of why Joe Biden appears to have outperformed fellow Party candidates further down the ballot.

When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s news conference at the White House on the evening of Nov. 5, they took pains to explain why they were shutting off the nation’s commander-in-chief.

My generation of first-time voters understands what’s at stake because we recognized the toll it took on our community. We saw injustices occur in our backyards and now we’re leading the movement for justice, for progressive social change.

The people who braved intimidation, violence and COVID-19 infections, cast their votes for a different future.

Jaime Harrison lost in his bid to unseat reactionary South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But his race, like the 2018 campaigns of Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida, shows what soon may be politically possible in the Deep South.

South Florida’s new Cuban immigrants are strong supporters of President Trump, offsetting the liberal trend among US-born Cuban-Americans. Their support for Trump is a vote for the continued isolation of Cuba, and a vote for their vision of America.

Joe Biden wins US election after four tumultuous years of Trump presidency.

In this season of politics, the Persian exile Majid Naficy speaks on behalf of principles and integrity.

Scientists at Columbia University have developed a treatment that blocks the virus in the nose and lungs, is inexpensive and needs no refrigeration.

Voters were also in favor of taxing the rich and making it legal to smoke weed.