With ballots hitting mailboxes next week and roughly one in four voters undecided as to who they want to be California’s next governor, the rising stakes of the state’s most wide open contest for its ...

One of America’s sunnier national convictions is that when people disagree it is useful, even virtuous, for competing sides to make their cases to the public. We wrap this belief in decorum and ...

Candidates debated housing and insurance policy in the first half, then furiously attacked one another at the end. By Soumya Karlamangla and Laurel Rosenhall What began as a tame, hourlong debate on ...

Five Democrats and two Republicans met onstage less than a month before an open primary that will advance two of them to the general election. Soumya Karlamangla and Laurel Rosenhall What began as a ...

With former frontrunner Eric Swalwell out and the race for California governor wide open, six leading candidates used their first televised debate Wednesday night to define who could emerge as the new ...

Spend time on social media and you will see debates with titles like “I destroy MAGA mom on vaccines” or “Conservative philosopher owns feminist student.” These popular videos focus on clip-worthy ...

Republican candidates for Arizona governor offered broad strokes for their plans if elected and steered clear of nasty, personal attacks on their opponents during an almost hourlong debate. The race ...