Rauner, Pritzker Win Primaries in Illinois Governor’s Race

Rauner, 61, took advantage of a national GOP wave four years ago to pull off a surprising victory in a state otherwise dominated by Democrats and win his first political office. Rauner’s personal wealth is just shy of $1 billion, but Pritzker — an investor and one of the heirs to the Hyatt hotel chain — is worth …

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin’s victory in Sunday’s presidential election has left deep divisions in an opposition movement that had been buoyed in recent months by countrywide protests but failed to translate its momentum into a broad political movement. Anticorruption activist Alexei …

This is an even-numbered year, which means it’s an election year, which also means it’s open season for political tricksters to ply their shadowy trade. Who are those tricksters? They are highly paid political consultants who specialize in dreaming up ways to lure voters into doing something that they would …

On Wednesday’s Houston Matters: We discuss the latest political stories with an eye for how they might affect Houston and Texas. Then, we meet a University of Houston researcher who studies the health disparities between different local communities. And we learn about some of the films being screened …

The leader of the Progress Party, Finance Minister Siv Jensen, said in a statement to news agency NTB that she had wished that Listhaug would continue in her job and that her political career is far from over. The turmoil has “given her the best start to her continued career,” she said. Listhaug said she …

The debasement of American politics reached a new low over the weekend. And while it was remarked upon as, yes, quite unusual and in some respects perhaps even unprecedented, as a polity we absorbed it as just another bit of slippage on a long national descent into the slough. What was once …

WASHINGTON — Here’s how significant things don’t get done in Washington even in a moment of crisis and opportunity. The president throws out a hodgepodge of ideas, thoroughly confusing both sides about what he really supports. Senate Republicans, grappling for an answer that responds to public …

Peter Roskam and Mike Bost are two of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country, and their races have been rated tossups by the nonpartisan Cook PoliticalReport. Reps. Rodney Davis and Randy Hultgren are in districts that are more favorable for the GOP, but not overwhelmingly so, according to …

The protests have highlighted an atmosphere of political turmoil in the European Union’s post-communist nations. In Slovenia, a fellow euro-zone member, the president began consultations over bringing forward summer parliamentary elections after Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned last week.

… the prospects for a meeting between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, to the runoff election campaigns in Texas Congressional Districts 2 and 7 — Houston Matters’ political experts discuss the latest national, state, and local political storieswith an eye for how they might affect Houston and Texas.