The race to the bottom — and how tribalism made scandal-plagued politicians unstoppable (opens in new tab)

In Texas, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, recently secured the Republican Party’s nomination over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. that Paxton’s substantial by the GOP-led state House of Representatives – might lose Republicans a seat they’ve held for decades. Democrats in Maine, meanwhile, , a political novice whose grassroots campaign and brash communication style over the state’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who remained on the ballot but .This, despite Platner facing a series of...