Russell Contreras

Black voters may determine whether Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) can build on breakthroughs in the 2026 elections. Why it matters: This year's primaries showed that DSA's path runs through...

Gen Z and millennials have launched their biggest bid yet to remake Congress, but roughly seven in 10 were out by early September, a new report finds.Why it matters: These two generations are strug...

America's youth sports boom is quietly rewriting Sunday mornings, turning the family calendar into a competition between the pews and the playing fields.Why it matters: For generations, churches he...

Republicans are in a dogfight to defend the Latino gains that had them dreaming of a lasting political realignment just two years ago.Why it matters: Nowhere is that reversal of fortune more visibl...

A national Latino civic engagement group is turning to an AI app to help voters cut through an increasingly complicated election system — in English or Spanish.Why it matters: Nearly 39 million His...

LOS ANGELES — Voters could make history next month by giving the two largest U.S. cities something in common: South Asian immigrant democratic socialist mayors.Why it matters: Such a pairing would ...

Latino voters swung sharply toward Republicans in 2024. Now, much of that gain is fading as gender and generational divides widen.Why it matters: The GOP breakthrough two years ago hasn't produced ...

Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 1968 to 2026 Annual Social and Economic Supplements; Note: Census identifies breaks in the series in 2013 and 2017 due to methodological changes...

Antisemitic threats have pushed the nationwide cost of protecting Jewish synagogues, schools and community centers past $1 billion a year, new estimates reveal as congregations prepare for big crow...

Data: Hart Research/TelevisaUnivision; Table: Russell Contreras/AxiosDemocrats have gained sharply with Latino voters in some of the country's most competitive House districts since 2024, a new Har...

Data: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database; Chart: Noah Bressner/AxiosPeople 65 and older now outnumber children ages 5 and younger worldwide for the first time in recorded history, according...

Civil rights groups have called on Black college athletes to boycott schools in states that are rolling back voting rights. But highly paid NIL-era athletes are proving to be unwilling protesters.W...

The nation's old guard of Black leaders is still a key force for Democrats, but this year's primaries have revealed the rising influence of Black Gen Z voters who aren't swayed by their elders' sen...

The U.S. is experiencing one of the steepest and most widespread crime declines in modern history. Researchers aren't exactly sure why — but they have theories: Early research points to a mix of fa...

Data: FBI; Note: 2021 data was estimated due to a low number of agencies reporting; Chart: Noah Bressner/AxiosThe U.S. violent crime rate plunged 9.7% last year — the largest annual drop since the ...

Data: U.S. Census, USDA; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsThe U.S. is projected to become majority-minority in 2046, but hundreds of rural pockets crossed that demographic benchmark years ago, an Axi...

Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA); Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosViolent crime kept falling across many of the nation's largest cities through June, with homicides down 17.2% from the fi...

Synagogues across the U.S. are having congregants train to be volunteer security teams as antisemitic assaults hit record levels and Jewish gathering places face increasing threats.Driving the news...

A white separatist group is openly planning a network of whites-only settlements across rural America that aim to withstand legal challenges by operating essentially as private clubs.Why it matters...