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 — […]
In his victory speech at his campaign headquarters in Detroit, Sen.-elect Abdul el Sayed (D-MI) declared, “We don’t want our money sent to do apartheid, or genocide, or war.” El Sayed might have wanted to throw shade at Israel, which, throughout his campaign, he made out to be a boogeyman as he spread the blood […]
Following the Republicans’ Midterm Elections drubbing, Vice President JD Vance sent out an X post. It infuriated those who have spent years trying to convince an American president, Democratic or Republican, that overthrowing the Iranian regime was an urgent, easy-to-accomplish mission. “The reason we lost is the [Iran] war,” Vance concluded. Indeed. President Donald Trump […]
On Tuesday night, the country watched as the American people made their choice for the makeup of the next Congress. It was not the outcome any of us in the Republican Party wanted, especially knowing that many of my colleagues will not be joining us in the 120th Congress. The next two years will be […]
New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, promised not just to freeze rents for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in the city, but also to build another 200,000 affordable units and preserve another 200,000. Those goals just got harder because the two biggest buyers of mortgage loans, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have responded to the […]
