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After taking control of Congress, Democrats vow major probes into Trump’s ‘tentacles of corruption’

Corruption topped the list of concerns for voters who ousted Republicans and handed Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections. Now, the newly empowered Democratic Party is putting the issue front and center as its leaders chart their course for investigations and policymaking.

Elon Musk gambled $445 million to boost Republicans in the midterms and came up short

Elon Musk spent at least $445 million in a gambit to help Republicans keep control of Congress, an amount roughly equivalent to someone on a $100,000 annual salary saving every penny for 4,400 years.

The leader of a German conservative party is found dead at a Berlin hotel

Hubert Aiwanger, the leader of a conservative party that has become a mainstay of Bavarian politics and sought to expand its influence across Germany, has been found dead at a Berlin hotel.

Black voters help propel Democrats, including history makers, in sweeping midterm victories

Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 when she was part of the crowd of civil rights marchers attacked on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, months before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

Another election, another Democratic doomsday that never came

Election Day has come and gone, and as usual, none of the Left’s doomsday prognostications or scenarios invoked by its hyperbolic hysteria and scaremongering nonsense came to fruition. After days, weeks, and months of warnings about President Donald Trump’s authoritarian regime stealing the election, it all turned out to be completely and utterly false. In […]

Losing an election isn’t a mental health emergency

The midterm elections are over, but for some Americans, the anxiety is just beginning. For months, campaign ads, fundraising emails, and cable news panels have warned voters that their freedom, safety, and the country’s future hang on the outcome. Now those whose candidates lost may be wondering just how bad things are going to get. […]

If Trump is a fascist, king, and authoritarian dictator, how did Democrats win control of Congress?

Nazi! Fascist! Dictator! Authoritarian! King! Those were just some of the many, many insults that liberals, Democrats, socialists, and communists hurled at President Donald Trump over the years. And they’ve been doing it for nearly 10 years. Yet, here we are in 2026, and the Fourth Reich has not been established. No monarchy was ushered […]

Guy Fawkes Day: Not what it used to be

Four hundred or so years ago, on Nov. 5, 1605, a plot to blow up the British Parliament failed. It was known as the Gunpowder Plot, and I’ve been burning Guy Fawkes, one of the culprits, in effigy at my home in Arlington for the past few years. The police are gracious enough to stop […]

The Supreme Court wants a benchmark. Savers should get the numbers

The Supreme Court may soon tell 401(k) savers to bring a “meaningful benchmark” to court. Before it does, savers should be able to get the numbers to build one. On Oct. 6, the justices heard Anderson v. Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee, a challenge to private equity and hedge fund holdings inside Intel’s custom retirement […]

Crying ‘socialism!’ isn’t a strategy — at least not a winning one

Tuesday night’s results should force a serious reckoning inside the Republican Party. Not just with candidates who underperformed, and not just about the political environment, but with the consulting class that spent this election cycle insisting to donors and candidates they could win by just drumming up their base — “Socialism!” — and turning out […]

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