I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that's a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...
More than a "thumping." That's what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining six Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. In Tuesday's midterm elections, Democrats won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have ...
Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly re-elected Democratic senator from Georgia. The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won re-election by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and will get ...
"Bluenami!" a friend said of the remarkable turnover of both chambers of Congress from Republican to Democratic control. Another way to look at the midterms Tuesday is that the voters' verdict found Donald Trump guilty of attempted murder of our democracy. The jury of citizens rescued America ...
My dad sent me a vat of olive oil from the village in Greece recently — by which I mean to say that he shipped it months ago, paying 30 euros to have it stacked on a slow boat from Piraeus by way of a company named after a Greek god. I had not asked for the olive oil and didn’t really ...
Tuesday's election wasn't a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one party in ...
