At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
Only in the United States can a company founded just six years ago become central to the efforts to maintain superiority over China or any other country in the broad spectrum of artificial intelligence. Moreover, only in the U.S. do the deep pools of risk capital exist that enable a new company to reach a […]
On Nov. 8, 2026, on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the progressive group Philly Bike on Left organized a bike ride in Philadelphia’s Center City and Rittenhouse Square to point out Jewish and Israeli-American-owned businesses, demanding a boycott and their closure. To their credit, many Philadelphians responded with outrage; counterprotesters outnumbered Philly […]
It’s been more than a year since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood during an on-campus speaking engagement in Utah. Evidence shows the accused assassin is a radicalized and demented leftist who decided Kirk’s supposedly ‘hateful’ views required a response of lethal violence. Kirk was allegedly killed for his political speech, during […]
To state what should be obvious, I never knew Jimmy Stewart — I was 14 when he died in July 1997 — but I sometimes feel as though I talked to him from time to time. And, in a way, I did: For the last 18 years of his life, I was a friend of […]
We are a different country than we were a quarter-century ago, when federal agent Jack Bauer first stayed up all night in our service. For one thing, around 90 million of us weren’t born in time for the November 2001 premiere of Fox’s 24. Another 10 million current Americans hadn’t immigrated yet, to say nothing […]
The lame duck Congress has four remaining weeks before it is scheduled to adjourn for the year. Even if it stays in session through Christmas and New Year’s, that still only gives representatives and senators six more weeks of work. There is a lot to be done. Unless the White House wants to start 2027 […]
Alaskans have rejected another effort to repeal the Last Frontier’s unique, ranked choice voting system and open primaries, Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) projects. Alaska adopted ranked choice voting and open primaries in a 2020 ballot measure, first implementing the system in the 2022 election cycle along with new campaign finance rules. But opponents haven’t let...
Jensen Huang’s departure from Nvidia threatens the stability of the AI industry and the market as a whole, as experts express differing outlooks on the chipmaker’s future. Huang resigned as CEO of the company he built from the ground up, Nvidia’s board of directors announced Thursday, after The New York Times reported on a pair...
Democrats are preparing for a knockout fight with the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) after a series of letters to legislative leaders saying the administration would seek to rebuff their probes. “I think Congress has to flex all of its power,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the House Oversight Committee's ranking member and...
A public feud between former senior Health adviser Calley Means and former White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is heating up as Means accuses Wiles and her former deputy chief of staff James Blair of corruption — highlighting the deepening rift between the MAGA and “Make American Healthy Again” (MAHA) movements. Means claimed Wiles...
Fresh off their midterm victories, Democrats are already facing a postelection reality check. In the span of two days, Democrats stumbled on two major fights, with some members missing a critical procedural vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the party failing to call for a recorded vote on a GOP veterans bill they...
