Government & Politics

Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to be criminally charged; legal and presidential experts share their concerns about the ramifications of the indictment that made history.

A two-day virtual conference from the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and the Campaign School at Yale later this month hopes to give people of color the skills needed to run for public office.

The dominance of wealthy self-funders in gubernatorial races is prompting Connecticut lawmakers to examine whether public financing needs an update.

Constituents sound off on Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to resign after he was seated Tuesday to represent New York’s third congressional district. Though he has admitted to lying about his resume to get elected, criminal charges are pending.

Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate are outspending Republicans in television advertising for the midterm elections, according to the latest report from the Wesleyan Media Project.

Until recent escalating attacks on the front runner, Connecticut’s race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate had been oddly listless, waged by three candidates whose daily campaign schedules are not public.

A man accused of attacking New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin during a recent campaign rally told investigators he’d been drinking that day and didn’t know who the congressman was, authorities said as the man was arrested on a federal assault charge Saturday.

Connecticut’s Democratic Governor Ned Lamont and his Republican challenger Bob Stefanowski are seeking the endorsements of two minor parties — the Connecticut Working Families Party and the Independent Party of Connecticut. WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with Quinnipiac University political scientist Scott McLean about why a third-party endorsement is important.

Up to 28% of corporate and federal contracts set aside for diverse small businesses in the U.S. are still executed by white men at large public companies, according to a study by BJM solutions, a Trumbull, Connecticut-based economic consultancy firm.

Pay raises for 80,000 state government employees in New York have been deferred a third time, according to the Civil Service Employees Association.The pay…