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After an inconclusive election, Israel’s Arab parties hold the balance of power—but a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
DeSantis engineered Florida's shift from purple to bright red - by asking us directly to join the Sunshine State's Republican revolution.
A Massachusetts liberal who has never sought the No. 1 leadership spot, Ms. Clark is known as an adept member manager.
In Texas, California and beyond, Hispanic voters shifted their support to Democratic candidates after siding with Republicans in 2024.
Tuesday night, in a midterm election for the ages, Democrats notched sweeping victories across the country. They took back both chambers of Congress, and possibly broke the spirit of a Republican Party that has been firmly in President Donald Trum…
This fight is the hottest because for people influencing foreign policy decisions, the imagined glory is greatest and the actual responsibility is near zero.
The vice president’s take calls to mind Milton’s description of Eden, and the terrible folly by which mankind forfeited Paradise.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Republican Party’s next phase can’t come soon enough.
Read how Gabriel Zucman is reacting to the defeat of his wealth tax proposal in California.
President Trump receives photos of drug seizures during briefings and presses officials on protecting individual victims amid the sweeping cartel crackdown.
George Perry counters that colleges can become too much like businesses.
Republicans didn’t attack Democratic Senate candidates on this issue at all.
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.
An all-too-common analytic error is to reduce complex problems to simplistic causes (sancta simplicitas, "holy simplicity", as Nietzsche mockingly referred to this tendency, particularly among religious believers). But there is also the reverse er…
In the days after Republicans suffered massive midterm election defeats, President Trump appeared unmoved. The New York Times’s White House correspondent Maggie Haberman explains how Trump’s public demeanor compares with what he has shared behind …
The Democratic Party swept formerly deep-red Senate seats in South Carolina, Kansas and Texas. What we've just witnessed is a collapse of the Republican Party.
The midterm results laid bare the deep unpopularity of the war of choice that President Trump started and is now struggling to end.
Do Americans still wish to be the nation that was founded in 1776? Or do they wish to be a new nation founded on principles entirely different from those of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? The fight over public history is a f…
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Rep. Don Bacon alleges Pete Hegseth lacks a "moral compass" and says the secretary "doesn't have a lot of friends on the Hill" today.
Several midterm winners broke barriers, but with campaigns that focused on delivering material change to the lives of Americans.
As the Chinese Communist Party hurtles headlong into the AI dilemma, its successes and failures will leave behind some kind of rudimentary map for the rest of us.
Firebrand GOP Florida rep says party must prepare for difficult two years, says Republicans bear responsibility for loss as a team
Mississippi's Senate race remains undecided by dozens of votes as deep-red states nearly flipped in the GOP's stunning election night bloodbath.
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Scott Colom, a Democrat, ran a viral ad and courted Republicans at a Trump rally before winning virtually the same number of votes as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican.
Our reporter Emily Badger visits the site of President Trump’s proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch.
The answer is more complicated than a simple counting of seats would have suggested.
The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
Demand for German cars has been hit in various ways by the effects of the EU’s coerced ‘transition’ to electric vehicles.
Republican Attorneys General Association memo reveals GOP AG candidates ran 4.62 points ahead of Senate hopefuls across key midterm election states.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
The Michigan progressive defied the odds and illustrates how left-wing candidates can be viable in purple states.
Republicans had a few wins, however small, that are worth celebrating.
Many donated money to President Trump’s favored causes and became his allies. Now that political alignment may be a liability.
The whole improbable "leading from the middle" campaign of Kansas Pastor Adam Hamilton, who switched parties in January to run against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall as a Democrat, only began to get national notice recently, after the president st…
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
Sen. Ted Cruz called the 2026 midterms a "blue tsunami" after James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott in Texas.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
The Iran war, gas prices and Trump's miscalculations led to one of the most decisive repudiations of an American president.
Michael Alfonso, 26, won Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District with Trump's endorsement and plans to push affordability and reigniting the American dream.
In a new book about the Carolingian Empire, historian James T. Palmer argues that its founder was more than just a brutal warlord. He was also ‘a savant with a large library and a taste for the obscure.’
The 2026 midterms were not just an earthquake. They were a continent-wide rupture of the Earth's crust, allowing molten lava to spill out across the nation and burn Republican bastions to the ground.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Over the past decade, former mommy blogger Rowan (née Amanda) Jetté Knox has come out as bisexual, pansexual, polyam, a ‘giant lesbo,’ a ‘non-binary queer person,’ a polyamorous ‘trans guy,’ and, as of last month, ‘two-spirited’ (and Indigenous).
Trump’s shortcuts toward his desired policies came at an enormous political cost.
Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
Erika Kirk invoked her late husband Charlie Kirk's words, urging conservatives to stay positive and avoid infighting after election setbacks.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton offered their thoughts on the heels of the midterm elections.
As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
JD Vance blamed the Iran war for the GOP's midterm losses and laid out four tasks he says will bring disaffected Republican voters back to the party.
The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem on her family’s Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
"Decoy Dan" Sullivan garnered 3,600 votes in the Alaska Senate race, far dwarfing the 642-vote margin between Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.
GOP insiders blame Trump after Election Night's blue tsunami flipped both chambers, with Democrats scoring seven Senate and 27 House pickups.
We treat every hour as preparation for some future payoff, but some of the best ways to spend a life accomplish nothing at all.
I am watching all the back-and-forth on this site. Much of it is nasty, petulant, dishonest, and vile.
It was the war that clobbered Republicans.
The wins last night will have long-lasting significance.
Most of these states have already seen serious efforts to legalize doctor-prescribed death — even when Republicans held some power.
Voters in several states who gave victories to Democrats also approved ballot measures to establish voter ID laws and require proof of citizenship to vote.
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president’s tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.