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 ...
Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the government ...
Stop the talk about a triumphal arch at the gates of Arlington Cemetery. Stop bullying the Kennedy Center into putting the Trump name on its front. Stop obsessing over the Reflecting Pool. Stop cutting down trees at a public golf course in Washington to make a championship course. These ...
To the Journal editor: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission keeps a price for a human life. By its own numbers, a year of savings from its newest rule is worth less than one of those lives. The rule, proposed in July under a 2025 executive order, drops a 50-year-old principle called ALARA: keep radiation “as low as reasonably achievable.” The NRC’s analysis puts the savings at about $10.5 million a year, counted “to the nearest 1,000 dollars,” mostly from less paperwork. The agency values one statistical life at roughly $12 million. The case for the change is fair. ALARA’s ...
In 2010, President Obama described those midterm elections as a "shellacking" for Democrats, who lost 60 seats in the House. Then, as now, the economy was the top issue. If Republicans could have had a worse night, I don't know what it would be. From Maine to Michigan to Texas, Republicans ...
There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every reason to believe were secure. South ...
