#political-campaigns

In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system.

Graham Platner rose to prominence partly through selfie videos that allowed him to provide confessional-style, improvisational-seeming direct addresses to his base—and he ended his campaign with one, too.

New York’s Twelfth Congressional District race—whose candidates include Micah Lasher, Alex Bores, George Conway, and Jack Schlossberg—is at once glitzy, confusing, and uninspiring.

What Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Graham Platner can tell us about the changing role of “authenticity” in politics.