From a looming government shutdown and another major spending bill to voter ID laws, permitting reform and the fight over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Matt Delaney looks at what's at stake in Congress's final weeks of Republican control following the 2026 midterms.
On the morning of a Laguna Pueblo village's annual Feast Day, Ashley Sarracino knelt in her family home holding clothespins between her teeth. She straightened her niece's black cotton manta, a traditional one-shouldered dress, and tied a sash around her waist.
Alaska voters have elected a Democrat for governor for the first time since 1998, part of a national midterm elections wave that gave the party sweeping wins in state governments across the country.
The 2026 midterm elections were about whether people could afford the food they eat, the house they live in, and take care of themselves and their families. That means it wasn’t about abortion, even though there are millions of pro-life voters. It wasn’t about climate change, even though millions of Americans believe Earth is dangerously […]
First built in 1972, the Landover Mall once featured a Hecht’s, a Sears, a Woolworth’s, and a six-screen movie theater. But by 1998, the Sears and Woolworth’s were gone, and after the Hecht’s closed in 2002, the mall was abandoned entirely before being demolished in 2006. The 90-acre plot has since sat completely empty for […]
“Well, then I wouldn’t be real, would I?” Thus spake Donald Trump, when asked if he would forgive former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to get himself into heaven. That our president would choose damnation tells us bout the man, but it tells us more about our culture. Mercy and forgiveness are out of vogue […]
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” The Wizard of Oz bellowed it right before Toto exposed him. This week, Fox News Digital reported that Neville Roy Singham and his wife, CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, have given more than $47,000 combined to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Ilhan Omar […]
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s recent report, “Antisemitism in K-12 Schools,” found that, in the School District of Philadelphia, “employees—from teachers to senior staff—foment antisemitism in the district” and that they “have been responsible for drafting district curricula.” The result it finds is predictable: The SDP’s curricula “promote ideology justifying violent resistance […]
The knives are out for War Secretary Pete Hegseth. There has already been one failed attempt to impeach him, but there will surely be others. He has been taking fire from Republicans and Democrats. He’s being blamed for the Iran war’s impact on the midterm elections. There has been unconfirmed speculation that he may be […]
It says something about how unique this past year in tennis was when one of the sport’s greatest of all time (Serena Williams) can attempt a comeback, and this story still wouldn’t crack the top five of the most interesting things that happened in tennis in 2026. That’s partly due to the fact that Williams […]
I didn’t panic when, after a single day of post-election ebullience, the stock market saw a sweeping, AI-fueled tech sell-off. I didn’t panic when voters across the midterm elections decided, in 40 of 41 local ballot measures, to restrict data center development. Nor did I panic when Anthropic, which originally said it was gunning for […]
I have always detested religious prejudice, whether directed at Methodists, Mormons, Muslims, or anyone else. I don’t know why it bothers me so much. Perhaps it has to do with my own background, Ulster Catholic on one side and Scots Presbyterian on the other, a combination that (trust me on this) gives you an exceptionally […]
