AUSTIN, Texas — Gina Hinojosa’s stunning victory put Texas at the epicenter of a political earthquake — and the aftershocks could upend Andy Beshear’s...
The blue wave crashed through statehouses across the country Tuesday — carrying political and policy ramifications that will reverberate for years.
Democrats flipped more...
Congress returns Monday to grapple with midterm election fallout and decide what, if any, legislation on a long to-do list can pass in the final weeks of the Republican majorities.
Tuesday’s midterm elections have already been given a name: the “blue tsunami.” Democrats won the House by a margin not seen in years and picked up Senate seats in states from Kansas to Texas, where few expected them to. At least one foreign-policy file could come out of the wave stronger rather than more divided. […]
John Mearsheimer is a world-famous professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He is a bitter critic of Israel. He offers a strong and severe indictment of the only civilized nation in the Middle East. It is well-written. It is erudite. It uses all sorts of big words. There is only one thing […]
Alice Cooper is a rock ’n’ roll oddity. If you’re at all familiar with his macabre onstage persona, the notion that he’s not normal even by the standards of rock stars seems obvious enough. What’s not so obvious is the way his cultural influence has been felt. What makes him a true oddity is that […]
Somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean, I am writing these words on my way to Israel, thinking about a journey that was supposed to take place nearly 60 years ago. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. planned to lead thousands of black Americans on a historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Six-Day War disrupted […]
A nobleman lures his drunken rival into catacombs where he walls him up for all eternity. A recluse in a “mansion of gloom” entombs his living, breathing sister in a vault. A lunatic who insists he is sane kills and dismembers an old man, and only confesses to his crime when he purports to hear […]
Nearly five years after his death in 2022 at age 80, Neal Adams is finally getting his due — or starting to. That he didn’t live to see this reflects elitist disdain for the artist’s chosen medium as well as the idiosyncratic decisions Adams made in the years when he enjoyed primary custodianship over his […]
Democrat trifectas in key swing states could push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact past 270 electoral votes needed to activate it and thus change the way Americans select the presidency.
