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It Wasn’t All Bad

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...

yesterday 1

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Lauren Veldhuizen

If You Need a Pick-Me-Up Today

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...

yesterday 3

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Vance’s Paradise Lost

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...

yesterday 1

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Daniel Foster

Another Repudiation Election

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...

yesterday 1

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Yuval Levin

A Health-Care Postmortem

In three competitive Senate races — those in Maine, Michigan, and Minnesota — Democratic candidates endorsed Medicare for All, which would kick...

yesterday 3

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Midterm Massacre Shows The Drawbacks of Unilateral Executive Actions

In Federalist No. 62, the author, likely James Madison, describes the advantages of dividing legislative power between the House and Senate by...

yesterday 2

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Philip Klein

Election-Security Ballot Referenda Survived the Blue Wave

During a night when Republicans faced loss after loss after loss across the country, a handful of states approved ballot measures to establish voter...

yesterday 3

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Tanner Nau

Arlington Bishop to Virginia Catholics: Do Not Despair

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Catholic Archdiocese of Arlington, Va., writes this morning: Tragically, a majority of Virginians voted this election...

yesterday 2

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

No, It Wasn’t Just the War

The emerging narrative, or rather excuse, from the right-populist wing is that last night's across-the-board electoral disaster for Republicans...

yesterday 2

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Dan McLaughlin

Overreading Results

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...

yesterday 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Pete Hegseth Must Go

Twenty years ago, Donald Rumsfeld was defenestrated from the Bush administration after the midterm elections. I remember well because I was working...

yesterday 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Persistence of DEI Mandates

Many accrediting organizations have embraced the DEI ideology, and like good progressives, insist that schools build it into their programs. The...

yesterday 2

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George Leef

Depressed Embryos

Researchers at Herasight, a biotech company that offers services to genetically test embryos and calculate the odds of successful IVF services for...

yesterday 2

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Abigail Anthony

The Florida Exception

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...

yesterday 2

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

And Now, to Begin to Get Out of Our National Emergency

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,...

yesterday 2

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Silver Lining in the Democratic Party’s Huge Majorities

Nobody understands better than Republicans how impossibly frustrating it is to govern with small congressional majorities. North Dakota Governor Kelly...

yesterday 3

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Noah Rothman

It’s Much More Than the War in Iran

Indeed, you can't spell "midterm a**-whooping" without Iran; but the seeds of the GOP's decimation were planted long before the...

yesterday 4

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Tanner Nau

Virginia Is for the Culture of Death & Other Harsh Electoral Realities

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...

yesterday 2

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

He Was on the Ballot, After All

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...

yesterday 3

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Jeffrey Blehar

Ranking the Issues

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...

yesterday 4

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Ramesh Ponnuru

It Was Trump, Stupid

Two years ago, on November 6, 2024, as the world awoke to the most breathtaking and remarkable political comeback in American history -- Donald...

previous day 6

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Mark Antonio Wright

The War, Stupid

Defeat has a thousand fathers. So Trump's character, the corruption in Washington, the graft, the social media posts, the on-again off-again...

previous day 5

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Does Anyone Ever Learn Anything?

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...

previous day 3

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Mark Antonio Wright

No One Learns Anything

Marks asks (rhetorically, but let’s ignore that), “Does anyone ever learn anything?” No one learns anything because no one is forced to learn...

previous day 3

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Luther Ray Abel

In the Bag?

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...

previous day 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Wave Functions

An unnamed Republican strategist, commenting on the Senate races in Kansas, Mississippi, and South Carolina, tells Axios: “Democrats may win these...

previous day 4

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Ramesh Ponnuru

A Normal Election Day Morning . . . with One Glaring Exception

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,...

previous day 6

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Jim Geraghty

The Most Important Midterm Statistic

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....

previous day 5

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John R. Puri

Even a Top Consultant for California’s Wealth Tax May Vote Against 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...

previous day 3

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John Fund

The Official 2026 Midterm Election Drinking Game

America, the midterm elections are upon us. Millions of Americans will today exercise their right to self-government, filling in bubbles or tapping a...

previous day 4

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Tanner Nau

Cutting Off Israel Won’t Appease the ‘Anti-Zionist’ Left

During an Election Day interview with the Fox News Channel, Donald Trump ruminated on America’s commitments to “paying Israel,” which is a...

previous day 3

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Noah Rothman

Things Are Also Breaking Against Republican Candidates for Governor

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...

previous day 5

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Dan McLaughlin

What’s Going On in Poland?

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...

previous day 3

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Andrew Stuttaford

What Is a ‘Short, Intense’ Campaign Against Iran Supposed to Achieve?

As I wrote yesterday, Iranian recalcitrance at the negotiating table is not helping America’s JD Vance-led team establish the conditions for a...

previous day 3

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Noah Rothman

The Senate Is Breaking Republican Hearts at the End

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...

monday 6

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Dan McLaughlin

Why So Grim About the Midterms?

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...

monday 6

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Luther Ray Abel

A Warmer Cold War

A major cyberattack has hit supermarket fridges and freezers in a number of European countries, stirring understandable suspicions of yet another...

monday 5

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Andrew Stuttaford

It’s Highly Unlikely the Trump DOJ Can Extend the Comey Statute of Limitations

Earlier, I posted about Friday’s hearing in the Trump DOJ’s latest attempt to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, the president’s...

monday 6

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Andrew C. McCarthy

The Pro-Life Movement Today

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers cut an abortion ad in the final stretch, responding to attacks from his opponent. I wrote about it earlier;...

monday 7

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Michael A. Fragoso

Free Speech Is on the Ballot in Michigan

Look out for a well-hidden free speech intrusion in Michigan’s Proposal 2. The state ballot initiative, which is backed by national progressive...

monday 5

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Skyler Safriet

The Court’s ‘Structural’ Problem: The Left Has Lost It

Liberal legal activist Jesse Wegman is hopping mad about the Supreme Court. It needs “structural reform.” Haley Stevens’s Political Suicide...

monday 6

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Haley Stevens’s Last-Ditch Defection

Haley Stevens faces intense backlash from her own party after endorsing Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed...

monday 5

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Nr Staff

The Iranians Are Not Helping Trump Avoid Another ‘Short, Intense’ War

At Donald Trump’s direction late last week, Vice President JD Vance reached out yet again to representatives of the Iranian regime. With the...

monday 6

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Noah Rothman

Running on Empty

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...

monday 5

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Mark Antonio Wright

More on Mike Rogers and Abortion

This mini-controversy started with a lie. The Michigan Democratic Party publicized a clip from a radio interview Mike Rogers did with a conservative...

monday 6

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Comey’s Problem: The Statute of Limitations Is a Defense, Not a Bar to Indictment

I explained last week the Trump Justice Department’s latest misadventure in Comey lawfare – the third attempt to charge him with felony crimes. To...

monday 5

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Michigan, Cheap Dates, and Abortions

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...

monday 6

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Trump the Very Good — and Horrid

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...

monday 5

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Roger Clegg

How Universities Can Protect Free Speech

Many of America’s colleges and universities are in disrepute because they have become so hostile toward freedom of speech. Reasoned argumentation is...

monday 5

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George Leef

Economists Try to Save Californians from Themselves

Much of the damage of Proposition 40, a ballot measure to impose a 5 percent wealth tax on California billionaires' assets, has already been...

monday 6

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John R. Puri