For Democrats and voting rights groups, the push for federal voting protections is far from over.  —  For many Democrats and voting rights groups, the failure to advance the party's major elections bill on Tuesday felt like the arrival of the inevitable, the final thud of a tree crashing in the woods after wavering for months.

Democrats signal a shift toward accepting voter ID laws  —  Prominent Democrats have increasingly softened their opposition to voter identification requirements in recent days, signaling a new openness to measures that activists have long vilified as an insidious method of keeping minorities from the ballot box.

A Bill Destined to Fail May Now Spawn More Plausible Options  —  The For the People Act had little chance of testing the limits of what if anything is still possible in Washington.  Oddly, it was so far from passage that it may provide some hope, because so many avenues remain to be pursued.

New York Primary Election Results  —  The race to become New York City's next mayor is one of the most consequential political contests in a generation, with the recovery of the nation's largest city at stake.  The winner of the Democratic primary is likely to win the general election in November.