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To say that last night did not go well for Republicans would be the understatement of the century — we lost, big time. However, there are some...
Read how Gabriel Zucman is reacting to the defeat of his wealth tax proposal in California. He’s mad that opponents were able to spread...
The vice president has figured out the midterms. It calls to mind Milton’s description of Eden, and the terrible folly by which mankind forfeited...
President Trump wanted voters to behave like he was on the ballot in the 2026 midterms, and he sure got his wish. Voters delivered a massive...
In three competitive Senate races — those in Maine, Michigan, and Minnesota — Democratic candidates endorsed Medicare for All, which would kick...
In Federalist No. 62, the author, likely James Madison, describes the advantages of dividing legislative power between the House and Senate by...
During a night when Republicans faced loss after loss after loss across the country, a handful of states approved ballot measures to establish voter...
Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Catholic Archdiocese of Arlington, Va., writes this morning: Tragically, a majority of Virginians voted this election...
The emerging narrative, or rather excuse, from the right-populist wing is that last night's across-the-board electoral disaster for Republicans...
Much of the commentary in the day after a major change election ages poorly. Values Voters could make an impression in 2004, but nobody was talking...
Twenty years ago, Donald Rumsfeld was defenestrated from the Bush administration after the midterm elections. I remember well because I was working...
Many accrediting organizations have embraced the DEI ideology, and like good progressives, insist that schools build it into their programs. The...
Researchers at Herasight, a biotech company that offers services to genetically test embryos and calculate the odds of successful IVF services for...
Ron DeSantis is almost certainly right here. Florida is one of the only red states that did not see a wipeout for Republicans: 🚨 JUST NOW: Gov. Ron...
If you’re part of the solution to these Trump years, you are thinking along the lines of what Peggy Noonan wrote in her most recent column,...
Nobody understands better than Republicans how impossibly frustrating it is to govern with small congressional majorities. North Dakota Governor Kelly...
Indeed, you can't spell "midterm a**-whooping" without Iran; but the seeds of the GOP's decimation were planted long before the...
Well, if I were JD Vance this morning, I’d go back to being Dumbledore. I did some morning BBC radio and was struck by the presenters' take...
Well, we lost. We lost it all, we lost generationally, and we lost in an unmistakable, coalition-shattering way. Who do I blame for the GOP’s...
Much of the debate on the right about why the elections went so badly have pitted tariffs against the Iran war. There’s a faction of the Republican...
Two years ago, on November 6, 2024, as the world awoke to the most breathtaking and remarkable political comeback in American history -- Donald...
Defeat has a thousand fathers. So Trump's character, the corruption in Washington, the graft, the social media posts, the on-again off-again...
The election is upon us, and the predictions of Doom are dire. Jeff Blehar writes that we should expect “no deus ex machina to extract the...
Marks asks (rhetorically, but let’s ignore that), “Does anyone ever learn anything?” No one learns anything because no one is forced to learn...
The New York congressional race between Republican Mike Lawler and Cait Conley is one of the hottest in the nation. Nearly $60 million has been spent...
An unnamed Republican strategist, commenting on the Senate races in Kansas, Mississippi, and South Carolina, tells Axios: “Democrats may win these...
It’s around 1 p.m. in the east, and so far, there haven’t been any reports of ICE agents being at polling places, intimidating voters. So far,...
Many pundits are confused as to why, in an economy where all the aggregates are pointing in the right direction, Americans are so sour about it....
Allen Prohofsky was the former chief economist for California’s Franchise Tax Board until 2023. After he retired he acted as a consultant to the...
America, the midterm elections are upon us. Millions of Americans will today exercise their right to self-government, filling in bubbles or tapping a...
During an Election Day interview with the Fox News Channel, Donald Trump ruminated on America’s commitments to “paying Israel,” which is a...
Let’s close the circle after my final wrap of the Senate polls, by looking at the races for governor. The picture is not pretty: We’re still not...
It is not often that seven judges storm (well, walk forcefully into) a country’s constitutional tribunal with a police escort, but that’s what...
As I wrote yesterday, Iranian recalcitrance at the negotiating table is not helping America’s JD Vance-led team establish the conditions for a...
I am a great believer in hope, and in the value of holding on to it even as the creeping sensation of doom approaches. Maybe I learned that as a Mets...
We don’t know precisely how the midterms will shake out, but Democrats entered the cycle needing to add six more seats to win control of the House...
A major cyberattack has hit supermarket fridges and freezers in a number of European countries, stirring understandable suspicions of yet another...
Earlier, I posted about Friday’s hearing in the Trump DOJ’s latest attempt to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, the president’s...
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers cut an abortion ad in the final stretch, responding to attacks from his opponent. I wrote about it earlier;...
Look out for a well-hidden free speech intrusion in Michigan’s Proposal 2. The state ballot initiative, which is backed by national progressive...
Liberal legal activist Jesse Wegman is hopping mad about the Supreme Court. It needs “structural reform.” Haley Stevens’s Political Suicide...
Haley Stevens faces intense backlash from her own party after endorsing Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed...
At Donald Trump’s direction late last week, Vice President JD Vance reached out yet again to representatives of the Iranian regime. With the...
The New York Times has an important news flash for you: There’s no such thing as a free lunch; scarcity is a fact of life; and when you make...
This mini-controversy started with a lie. The Michigan Democratic Party publicized a clip from a radio interview Mike Rogers did with a conservative...
I explained last week the Trump Justice Department’s latest misadventure in Comey lawfare – the third attempt to charge him with felony crimes. To...
I’ll confess: Arguing about Michigan and abortion the morning before Election Day made for one miserable Monday morning. The good news is, most 2026...
Two recent posts on NRO perfectly illustrate the point that, like the little girl with the curl in the nursery rhyme, President Trump can be very good...
Many of America’s colleges and universities are in disrepute because they have become so hostile toward freedom of speech. Reasoned argumentation is...
Much of the damage of Proposition 40, a ballot measure to impose a 5 percent wealth tax on California billionaires' assets, has already been...