Earlier this week, Tiffany Cabán, upstart candidate for Queens District Attorney, officially conceded to local party favorite Melinda Katz. Her insurgent candidacy attracted attention in New York City ...

This month’s Crain’s Forum examines New York’s woefully low voter engagement. Here is one of four ideas to boost turnout. Grappling with New York City’s voter turnout problem requires accepting a ...

2018 marks the demise of the big-city Democratic machine. For centuries, those storied machines dominated America’s largest cities, driving volunteers through neighborhoods and delivering voters to ...

Jacob Arvey, left, was part of a delegation including Sen. Adlai Stevenson and Mayor Richard J. Daley greeting former president Harry Truman on a visit to Chicago in July 1956 to raise funds for ...

This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone. In the final days leading up to his eleventh election for Congress, Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., was confident in his chances. As Capuano told a ...

New Yorkers weighing November’s referendum on adopting ranked-choice voting can look back 80 years to when city residents adopted a different electoral reform, proportional representation, and see how ...