The morning after Democrats flipped both the House and the Senate in an historic and stunning midterm tsunami, Vice President JD Vance needed heat diverted away from his catastrophic failures (see: the memorandum of understanding with Iran) and tiredly targeted Israel, his favorite doormat, to take a significant part of the blame. In a long […]
First, congratulations, Democrats. You won convincingly, and your victory can reasonably be described as a blue wave. However, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, there is a quote by Winston Churchill that seems apropos in this moment: “In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.” Second, I sometimes think […]
Californians are facing a litany of issues, from high taxes to unaffordable housing to gas prices. In West Hollywood, leaders have finally decided to deal with a major issue facing their residents: giving legal benefits to throuples. The West Hollywood City Council unanimously approved an ordinance recognizing the legality of polyamorous relationships, allowing people with […]
Everything you heard about a post-Charlie Kirk Christian revival is bunk. When the dust settled on the Republican Party’s crushing electoral defeat, the exit polls revealed that the share of white evangelical voters had decreased by nearly 30% since the previous midterm elections. And the largest religious demographic in the election? Those with no religion […]
“In the end,” wrote Goethe, in the single most depressing line in European literature, “we are all King Lear.” President Donald Trump has been at it for longer than most, spending his second term raging impotently at domestic and foreign enemies. “I shall do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they […]
It was a political bloodbath. Leading up to it, if you squinted, you could see a few paths for the incumbent party to mitigate some of the damage and minimize the impact of the awful fundamentals and historical trends approaching like a freight train. Those paths did not materialize. Many Republican voters were disaffected or […]
North Carolinians voted overwhelmingly to require all voters to present a valid ID, which is a racist policy worthy of Jim Crow if you ask Joe Biden or the Democratic Party. Yet on the very same day, the very same voters, by a 60% to 38% margin, elected to the Senate Democrat Roy Cooper — […]
Former President Joe Biden aides mapped Tesla, Apple, Amazon and OpenAI as targets for sweeping Democratic congressional investigations into Trump allies.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Party unity push faces an early test as John Fetterman and Abdul El-Sayed trade insults over U.S. aid to Israel.
