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An account of the beginning of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's 2027 presidential campaign and why he must win.

Ken Paxton, 2025, courtesy of WikiMedia (DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, TEXAS) -- Democratic optimism is rising across Texas this spring, and not without reason. The state’s Senate race is increasingly orbiting around Ken Paxton: a figure who, for many voters, has come to represent not just the Republican Party’s rightward shift, but a broader tolerance for scandal, extremism, and constant political conflict. Paxton still commands real loyalty among Republican primary voters. But b

By The White House - https://www.flickr.com/photos/202101414@N05/54908790930/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=181766119 (KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA) - On Sunday, Hungarians head to the polls with a smell of change in the air. For the first time since his first election in 2010, Viktor Orbán seems mortal, as his far-right populist party, Fidesz, is facing a big challenge by Péter Magyar and his centre-right TISZA Party. For an essay that concerns ev

2026 UK Elections: The Muted Threat of Your Party Corbyn’s seeming reluctance to found his own political party last September — having to be persuaded by former Labour MP Zarah Sultana — may be seeping into Your Party’s campaign ahead of the upcoming May 2026 UK elections. The party has endured a difficult first half-year: internal policy and leadership disputes, boycotted conferences, multiple MPs defecting, and a rival socialist party in the Greens surging in the polls. The

Pulitzer prize winner and MacArthur Genius grant recipient Prof. Jericho Brown reading selected works at the 17th Annual Robert E. Price Poetry Festival to an audience in Chestertown, MD (CHESTERTOWN, MD) – Last Saturday night, the MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown inspired tears, laughter, and love at his reading of a collection of his own poetry during the 17th Annual Robert E. Price Poetry Festival. During a Q&A session after he

Labour's landslide victory poses key questions for where the party will go on trans rights now in government.