Politico “The defeat of an initiative to raise the minimum wage to $18 an hour makes California the first state to reject a statewide minimum-wage increase at the ballot in almost 30 years, an outcome ...

CNN: A new PEW study of 10,658 Americans finds one-fifth of US adults ‘regularly’ receive their news from online ‘news influencers.’ But 37% of young adults aged 18 to 29 do. “A clear majority of news ...

From the Anchorage Daily News. Approximately 5,800 ballots remain to be counted.

Washington Post has this intriguing story. DNC layoffs appear to go beyond the normal cycle of scaling back the political organization after an election. The article reports: “Those laid off included ...

Given the new vote tallies in the five outstanding races, Politico estimates that the House will be down to a very narrow margin after cabinet appointments. From the morning feed: “GOP Rep. JOHN ...

Andrew W. Appel (Princeton, Computer Science) and Philip B. Stark (UC Berkeley, Statistics) have a new paper cautioning about a new software designed to accelerate the count for overseas votes by ...

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the costs of accuracy in the vote are causing political fallout. Governor Shapiro reiterates that PA law provides for an automatic recount where the margin is ...

The Michigan State University College of Law will be hosting a Democracy Works-in-Progress Conference on April 10-11, 2025.

Follow everyone there, or whomever you choose, with just one click.

Thomas Goldstein (SCOTUS Blog) offers his views on the criminal cases against Trump. The people have spoken; it is time to drop the cases: “Democracy’s ultimate verdict on these prosecutions was ...

What to do about the sentencing of a convicted felon who will assume the highest office of the land? Trump: Obviously, dismiss the criminal conviction–to do otherwise is to impede my ability to ...

Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent, appears to have won her judicial race by “625 votes out of 5.5 million.” There are still some outstanding votes to be counted, but her Republican ...