The Pew Research Center study also found a gap between interest in news about local elections and the ability to access such coverage.

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Technology may not have been an unalloyed good in other areas, but for covering the RNC and DNC, it has been our friend.

There’s been no statement, release, press conference or medical report. Voters deserve to know how he’s doing, one columnist argues.

Biden’s decision is a “huge earthquake,” said David Greenberg, a presidential historian at Rutgers University. John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College, said, ...

Television journalists, especially during moments of big breaking news, often fall into a pit of hyperbole. When CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell took the air Sunday, she said, “It has been a wild few weeks.