More than a “thumping.” That’s what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining 6 Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. As this is written, before sunrise Wednesday, Democrats have won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have gained or […]
The Democratic Party’s sweep into power in the 2026 midterm elections means Democrats will spend the next two years planning the extreme power grabs they have been agitating for, to be carried out if they retake the White House in 2028. Democrats have secured 54 Senate seats and could add two more in Alaska and […]
The time is now for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to run for president on a freedom agenda. Paul can bring the Republican Party back to its small-government and free-market roots. The public did not vote in the midterm elections for Democrats — it voted against Republicans. Voters are unhappy with rising prices and the specter […]
Plutarch’s ancient riddle — a staple of Philosophy 101 — concerns the mythic ship of Theseus. The story goes: Brave Theseus crosses the treacherous Aegean from Athens to Crete, where he plunges into King Minos’s deadly Labyrinth and slaughters the vicious Minotaur that had been terrorizing the land. The conquering hero then boarded his galley, […]
Tuesday’s resounding defeat, a generational extinction-level event that swept Democrats into power not just in Washington but across the country in state capitals, needs to become the starting point for rebuilding a Republican Party that owes its voters, nominees, volunteers, and donors something more than personal loyalty. Republicans need an honest accounting of what went […]
Fresh off Tuesday’s electoral beatdown, some conservatives are arguing that it would have been better for Iran to have a nuke than for the Democrats to win the midterms. That’s a suicidal assessment. You can easily take back Congress in one or two election cycles, but a nuclear Iran is an irreversible crisis. Reflecting on […]
President Donald Trump’s Republican Party just suffered the worst midterm defeat since the Obama years, and everyone wants to know who or what is to blame. One popular explanation is that the GOP ran bad candidates, which it did, but that is not why it lost. If bad candidates were the deciding factor, the Democrats […]
College basketball tipped off this week with a new kind of box score. According to the NCAA, about 200 eligibility lawsuits involving roughly 850 athletes have been filed since June. By the Associated Press‘s count, 171 men’s and 30 women’s basketball players have won some court relief to play. Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd watched forward […]
In Wellesley, Massachusetts, it is basically illegal to build a starter home, and it looks like it will stay that way. The voters of Massachusetts appear to have rejected a measure that would have overridden local laws that ban modest lots. This sounds like an arcane battle between state law and local zoning regulations, but […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has acknowledged a lame-duck increase through the end of President Donald Trump’s term as a possibility “multiple times since July,” Politico reported on Oct. 13. Republicans are also eyeing defense money, and a reconciliation package shelved before the midterms carried about $100 billion for defense and farm aid, Roll […]
Just as political pundits of the 1970s were quick to say that only Richard Nixon could reach out to the communists of Beijing, the pundits of 2026 might say that only President Donald Trump could end the $4 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel. Trump made the announcement in the final days of […]
Artificial intelligence is dominating most news media, with coverage oscillating among fears for humanity, announcements of breakthrough advances, and trepidation about the impending infrastructure investment that could dwarf every previous industrial and technological revolution. Anthropic and OpenAI, the corporate developers of the most advanced “frontier” AI systems, hope, audaciously, to raise capital that values each […]
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Ten years ago, a homemade sign stood off U.S. 62 between Sharon, Pennsylvania, and Masury, Ohio, on the fault line of the Mahoning Valley. It read: “You had your chance, it’s our turn now.” On Tuesday, the valley said it again. This time, it was talking to Republicans. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, […]
All the votes haven’t even been counted yet, and the Democrats have revealed their true colors to the people. They’re not interested in helping the nation’s families. All they want to do is hold numerous show trials and investigate officials from the Trump administration. Several Democrats admitted as much on Tuesday evening while votes were […]
